Four trucks, with flour and other products, approach, but over the crowded multitude, with more hunger than hope, suddenly it rains shrapnel. Airplanes appear, and tanks shoot and pass their mats, even over the bodies of the wounded and dead.
Such a scene, as Dantesque as it is unimaginable, occurred yesterday in the Gaza Strip. At the end of the carnage, 112 dead bodies and more than 700 wounded in the blitzkrieg offensive of the Israeli forces against starving Palestinians.
There seems to be no salvation for a people that is being massacred before the eyes of a world that watches in astonishment, but does not act to stop the crime. More than 30,000 people have been killed and 60,000 wounded since the Zionist government began its attacks.
It will be like this as long as the UN Security Council does not pass a resolution to put an end to the massacre – vetoed today by the US – it will be like this until the International Criminal Court orders a cease-fire. Will it be?
Thursday’s was a crime against starving children waiting for a plate of food, or a glass of water to quench their thirst. Hispantv called it a “slow motion massacre”. The blockade to the entry of humanitarian aid puts more than 1,100,000 children on the brink of death, according to the NGO Save the Children.
While this was going on, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant that he was “very concerned about the negotiations for the release of the Israeli hostages”.
With abhorrent cynicism, Israel’s National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, commented in x that “full support should be given” to the “heroic fighters” of the Israeli Armed Forces operating in the area, who “performed excellently against a mob in Gaza that tried to harm them,” RT quoted him as saying.
And still there are those who question it: Israel is reprising the horrors of the greatest known holocaust.