Palestine Tet – 125 – Day 180 – Euro-Med Monitor: The Israeli Genocide in the Gaza Strip

Numbers of casualties here are always about 25% higher than what we hear from other sources. I have found their reporting accurate in the past.

Two million people displaced, nearly 118,000 dead and wounded, nearly 400,000 completely and partially destroyed homes, 869 targeted healthcare professionals either dead or wounded …

Josh Paul, former State Department official puts just a bit of the horror into perspective:

Israel’s murder of World Central Kitchen aid workers comes on the day that Israel wrapped up its operations in al Shifa Hospital that have left the ground littered with decaying body parts.

And nor is it by any means the first strike on humanitarian aid workers. In February Israel murdered US citizen Mousa Shawwa, logistics coordinator for Anera. In November it murdered three doctors from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), and in December it murdered Reem Abu Lebdeh, who was a Board Member of MSF UK.

It has murdered over 100 journalists, many of them on-the-clock and wearing press jackets. It has murdered hundreds of UN aid workers.

It has struck hundreds of “deconflicted” humanitarian sites, including churches, shelters, and pharmacy storehouses.

And of course in February after having given direct permission for an ambulance to retrieve 6-year-old Hind Rajab from the car where she sat surrounded by the dead bodies of her parents, it struck that ambulance, murdering the medics within it.

In that context, last week the U.S. Department of State authorized the transfer of over 2,000 more bombs and 25 F-35 fighter jets; this week it will likely authorize 1,000 more munitions and notify Congress of the proposed sale of 50 F-15 fighter jets and associated upgrades worth over $18.8 billion dollars.

The Biden Administration cries wolf of concern for Palestinian civilians while rushing a major shiop of powerful bombs to bolster Israeli stockpiles.

This is Washington’s war as well as Tel Aviv and the term “Genocide Joe” applied to Biden and his administration is apt.

Six months into Israel’s genocidal attack – with new horrors inflicted on the Palestinian people of Gaza every day – the world is becoming exhausted by the Palestinian issue. But then there is a growing fatigue and fear growing both in Washington and Tel Aviv, a fatigue that has a strong element of panic as their global isolation intensifies and Washingont watches its prestige plummet with every doctor and aid worker killed in Israeli missile strikes, with every child that dies of starvation while gleeful Israelis – with the support of the Netanyahu government – prevent the aid caravans from entering Gaza.

Regardless, we have work to do, to stop the genocide, We thought Israel’s war on Gaza would be a sprint, over in a few weeks, like earlier conflicts. Instead it is a long-distance race. We need to adjust to this fact and continue our work for a ceasefire, to end the genocide, and to bring Washington and Tel Aviv to justice for the crimes against humanity they continue to carry out everyday.

Nothing else matters ….