War in Israel October 7, 2023 – July 7, 2024, an obscene birth
It’s a obscene birth the fruit of nine months of extermination and destruction perpetrated by Israel in Gaza and the West Bank. A gorgon of abominable features that should petrify anyone just by looking at it and that instead eyes trained to see without discerning mistake for a vigorous Amazon. Like Medusa and her sisters, Israel exercises its “deadly charm” by camouflaging every crime and misdeed in self-defense, in the name of its right to exist and grow. Since October 7, Israel has worked and continues to work tirelessly to make Gaza uninhabitable. Its brutal and ferocious counteroffensive, which officially has the aim of eradicating and wiping out Hamas, in truth has as its sole purpose that of exterminating Palestinians, sterilizing their roots and forcing the survivors into a mass exodus.
There is no other explanation for the Jewish state’s obstinate insistence on carpet bombing the Strip, and with particular pathological insistence on public and private structures: from hospitals to humanitarian headquarters, from schools to universities, from government buildings to water and sewage systems, from houses to cultivated fields, orchards and olive groves. All that is missing is the spreading of salt and most of it is done. The destruction is such that not even a trace remains of the passage on this earth of over two million Palestinians trapped in Gaza. And this is because, as I wrote in an article last January 26, the memory of an entire people has crumbled in the rubble of the bombings (https://www.affaritaliani.it/esteri/gaza-cancellare-la-memoria-di-un-popolo-equivale-ad-annientarlo-897832.html). All this feeds into one logical and incontrovertible conclusion: when the war is over and the waters have calmed down, there will be nothing left for the civilian population, not a single memory of who they were and what their home address was.
Every day is carnage. Every night is hell. None of the Palestinians struggling to survive know whether they will see the sunrise or the sunset. Just yesterday, Israeli forces attacked the UNRWA school in the Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza, claiming, as usual, that Hamas elements were present inside. All claims that, as always, are devoid of explanations and, above all, devoid of even the slightest shred of evidence. At least 16 civilians were killed and over 75 people were seriously injured, all of whom were transferred to al-Awda and Al-Aqsa hospitals. As has been the case for the past nine months, women and children constitute the vast majority of victims.
Also in the last 24 hours, the Israeli army killed six more civilians in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City; three bodies were recovered from a bombed house in the al-Mina neighborhood of the northern city; while in central Gaza, another six Palestinians were killed in the bombing of a house in the town of az-Zawayda, near Deir el-Balah. East of Rafah, the lifeless bodies of three handcuffed Palestinians were recovered, according to an Al Jazeera team on the spot. The Ministry of Health has updated the number of victims since the beginning of the Israeli counteroffensive: more than 38,000 dead, while the wounded are now close to 90,000.
Meanwhile, after many weeks of stasis, negotiations to reach a ceasefire and release the hostages have resumed. According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Hamas has accepted that in the first phase of the Biden plan there will be no commitment to a permanent truce by Tel Aviv, thus allowing this point to be discussed after the release of the first hostages, women and children; Tel Aviv, however, has assumed a very tough position “by making new demands, which could extend the duration of the new round of negotiations”. One of the keys to interpreting these further changes imposed by Israel in the negotiations is to lengthen the times and allow Netanyahu to arrive at the fateful appointment of next July 24 at the White House with something in hand, if not an agreement, something that resembles one. However, unknowns remain, starting with the reactions that may be unleashed if and when Netanyahu were to deliver the planned speech to the United States Congress, an intervention desired by both Democratic and Republican leaders, who jointly invited him at the end of May, in the midst of the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip.
Today marks 9 months since the beginning of this war. Nine months that have changed the paradigms that governed the world, put on display the ferocious face of Israel and unmasked the hypocrisies of the West. Nine months during which, according to journalist Chawki Senouci, some certainties have emerged that we did not have before. The first is the number of deaths, which few still question. The second “is that it is a colonial war, where the strongest wants everything”. As proof of this, today Le Monde, citing data from the Israeli NGO Peace Now, highlights that “since the beginning of 2024, the Netanyahu government has declared 2,370 hectares of the West Bank as state lands”. The third certainty, according to Senouci “is the silence, the indifference of the West”, anesthetized and domesticated by the daily massacres of civilians and the acceleration of the colonization of the West Bank.
Meanwhile, new paradoxes, skillfully orchestrated by the propaganda machine, have replaced the old ones: In France, where today a game is being played that is far from certain for the future, the Popular Front, born of the fight against Nazi-fascism, is accused of anti-Semitism for the simple fact of having expressed solidarity with the Palestinians while disagreeing with Israel for its methods and the obscene and horrifying carnage of these nine months; while the Rassemblement National, heir to the Vichy regime, has been cleared, even by the Jewish communities, because Marine Le Pen supports Netanyahu. And so it is happening not only in France, but in Germany, Great Britain, Italy, everywhere. A subversion of history and reason that should worry even the most optimistic of readers.
Finally, how can we not talk about the thousand hypocrisies and obvious disparities in treatment that we have witnessed in these nine months that have unmasked beyond any doubt the thousand hypocrisies of the West. Starting from information, in an advanced state of deadly submission. Yes, because in these nine months, unlike what happened with the war in Ukraine, whose coverage was absolute and all-encompassing, those who informed the world were “especially the young journalists and journalists from Gaza who posted and continue to post about the war on social media every day”. In this way “the south of the world, minorities in the United States, the Irish in Europe have seen their history through the eyes of the Palestinians by choosing to side with the weakest. From there the movement has become global thanks to the mobilization of the University of every corner of the world”. Talking about peace in the Strip and the end of a nightmare for the two million Palestinians and for the Israeli hostages and their relatives is a dream that we must not stop cultivating with the awareness, however, that we must learn to play this game according to other schemes and strategies, since every measuring instrument has been modified and all the rules of the geopolitical game have been subverted.
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