There is an effort being made to arrange an end to the war on Gaza, through a ceasefire, an exchange of prisoners, and an intensification of relief aid, including food, water, medicine, shelter for the displaced, fuel, and supplies to restart hospitals. All of this occupies a higher priority than all other political issues that continued fighting and destruction will not solve, but rather exacerbate and complicate. Seven months of war demonstrated the capabilities and death machines of both sides of the war, and the positions and initiatives of the concerned external parties, whether near or far, to influence the course of events. Therefore, continuing with the same thing portends, on the one hand, more horrific atrocities, if not major historical mistakes, and the current reality of Gaza’s exploitation, war, and tragic situation continues to push, on the other hand, the interaction and expansion of all conflicts in the region, and perhaps more wars. Until now, the only two possible and feasible things seemed to be killing and destruction, and very few of them occurred in actual combat confrontations between an Israeli army that has all the arsenals it needs and Palestinian fighting groups whose armament remains limited, while much of it appeared as if it were random but was intentional in practice, as evidenced by the fact that most Its targeting was directed against civilians.
This is evidenced not only by the rising toll of children, women and the elderly, but also by the systematic destruction of all facilities and infrastructure of a purely civilian nature, from markets, bakeries, hospitals, universities, schools and mosques, to the leveling of cemeteries, in addition to the creation of mass graves to hide the true numbers of the dead. These practices do not establish the force that they are committing in a peaceful future within the fabric of the region, especially since any global institution, political such as the United Nations or judicial such as the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court, will forgive what happened as if it had never happened. Even if international tensions prevent it from being held accountable, the collective memory – not only Arab but global – will not forget. The facts have demonstrated how entire generations around the world adopted a new awareness of the Palestinian issue and its historical dimensions, and were not sympathetic to a specific Palestinian faction, but rather were shaken by attempts to uproot a people from their land by targeting their children and women. Didn’t a UNRWA statement say that the war “continues as a war on women?” “?
Amazing preliminary numbers that experts have begun to provide about hundreds of millions of tons of destruction and the expected time for removing it and for reconstruction, all of which are measured in decades, and this is with the assumption that the Gaza Strip will have a sustainable priority in aid and investment budgets regionally and internationally, knowing that other conflicts and crises in the region are competing for its need. To financing contributions. However, even with the availability of capabilities and wills, the presence of more than two million homeless Palestinians in Gaza is an urgent matter for starting work without delay, instead of keeping people as victims of the options of immigration or displacement, and the continuation of the war is only to push towards them. It is not only the humanitarian situation that is worrying, but also the intersection of regional rivalries and conflicts and their international extensions. The Israeli-Iranian missile exchange was just an example that may have consequences, not only on the level of interests and influence, but especially on the prospects for solutions currently being discussed towards the “two-state solution” and the crystallization of a stable reality in the Middle East. Therefore, there must be an immediate end to the war on Gaza, and unless the new reality favors a historic solution to the Palestinian issue, it will be an extension of the conflicts of interests over Palestine.
*Writer and political analyst – London
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