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- By Asim Qadeer Rana
Similar to any war, humanity has been the first prey in the ongoing Israel-Palestinian war. The war is taking its toll on human lives. This war showed a mighty disobedience and an indifference to international laws, including humanitarian laws, laws of armed conflict, and so forth.
The attack on al-Ahli Arab Hospital, which left 500 people dead, including patients on sick beds, is proof of disrespect for humanity and international law. Straightaway after the attack, Hananya Naftali, a digital aide to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu posted on X, formerly Twitter, which read, ‘Israeli Air Force struck a Hamas terrorist base inside a hospital in Gaza.’
After that, he made an apology for sharing ‘a Reuters report’ that ‘falsely stated Israel struck the hospital.’ Israel stated that Hamas’ rocket hit the hospital. How many rockets are needed to bring down a hospital of this size to ground zero? Before the hospital bombing, Israel attacked 20 healthcare facilities in Gaza, alleging that these facilities hid Hamas’s weapons.
After the attack on al-Ahli Arab Hospital, Israel ordered the evacuation of Al Quds Hospital. A humanitarian misfortune is escalating in ruthlessness and density with the devastation of hospitals and other civic facilities. After the attack, Israel cut Gazans off all supplies, including water and medicine, not covered by any law of armed conflict.
Gaza, which Israel has transformed into an ‘open-air prison’ much to the unconcern and consent of the flag bearers of human rights, is home to 2.3 million Palestinians.
The Biden administration, with the presidential election knocking on the door, has no option but to show indisputable loyalty to Israel, perform as a wartime leader, and keep the American Jewish lobby in confidence.
The list of Palestinians killed in the war in Gaza stretches for more than 150 pages, at times featuring dozens of people with the same last name: Entire families have been wiped out by Israeli air attacks.
The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza’s list documenting the deaths of more than 7,000 Palestinians, including nearly 3,000 children, since the war began on October 7 is shocking. Each name is paired with a government identification number, a step meant to indicate transparency.
However, less than 24 hours earlier, United States President Joe Biden cast doubt over the figures, saying that he has “no confidence in the number that the Palestinians are using”. “I have no notion that the Palestinians are telling the truth about how many people are killed,” Biden said.
For Palestinian rights advocates, the US president’s comments are another episode in his administration’s push to “dehumanize” Palestinians and dismiss their suffering, as Washington continues to support the Israeli bombing campaign.
Moreover, critics were quick to point out that human rights experts, including at the United Nations, have long found the Palestinian Health Ministry’s data to be reliable.
Palestinian American activist Zeina Ashrawi Hutchison said Biden’s remarks seem to question Palestinians’ humanity “even in death”. “The president’s statements are outrageous, irresponsible, and flat-out racist and anti-Palestinian. Video
Biden’s publicly professed doubts come as the US continues to resist calls for a ceasefire and instead continues to pledge military support for Israel. Yara Asi, a Palestinian-American public health expert at the University of Central Florida, called the president’s remarks “appalling”. “To dispute those figures was really, really just putting both feet in with Israel on this, in yet another way that dehumanizes Palestinians,” Asi said.
With Israel preventing foreign journalists or researchers from entering Gaza as the conflict intensifies, the territory’s health ministry has become the go-to source for understanding the Palestinian death count. The Israeli army is bombarding southern Gaza where it told 1.1M Palestinians to move for their safety. Minutes 03 econds07:03
“As if the president hadn’t already been complicit enough in the dehumanization of Palestinians, now he says he doesn’t trust us when we say we are being murdered,” Palestinian American activist and comedian Amer Zahr said. “How much lower could one stoop than to say we are lying about dying?”
For her part, Asi, the public health expert, said the Biden administration understands that civilian casualties are “extremely unpopular”.
Israeli troops and tanks have carried out a brief yet relatively large overnight ground incursion into Gaza ahead of a widely expected full-scale ground invasion after nearly three weeks of devastating air raids on the besieged Palestinian enclave.
Video of the overnight action issued by the Israeli army on Thursday showed armored vehicles proceeding through a sandy border zone. A bulldozer is seen leveling part of a raised bank, tanks fire shells, and explosions are seen near or amid a row of damaged buildings.
Overnight, the IDF conducted a targeted raid using tanks in the northern Gaza Strip, as part of preparations for the next stages of combat. The soldiers exited the area at the end of the activity.
Israel has already made several limited advances into the Gaza Strip over the past two and a half weeks, but this was the biggest incursion of the current war.
There have been similar attacks in the past where soldiers crossed into Gaza. What makes this one unusual is that it is the first time that tanks have been involved.
Israeli army moved in with specific targets in mind. The Israeli army claims to have killed a number of Hamas fighters and to have damaged a significant amount of infrastructure that could be used by the Palestinian group. They also stated that they had targeted antitank posts that had been set up. This is clearly in preparation for what the next stage of the war will be. Video
The ground raid comes after the United Nations warned it is on the verge of running out of fuel in the Gaza Strip, forcing it to curtail sharply relief efforts in the territory, which has also been under a complete siege since Israel launched strikes that have killed more than 6,500 Palestinians in less than three weeks.
Palestinian health officials said the Gaza death toll was soaring as Israeli jets pounded the enclave. Workers pulled dead and wounded civilians, including many children, out of landscapes of rubble in cities across the territory.
Western leaders are all leaders of democracies, and all of those democracies have histories ladened with the dead. France has Algeria; Italy has Libya and Ethiopia; the United Kingdom has most of the world; Germany has all of Europe; and the United States has all of Central and South America plus a good chunk of Asia.
In all of these places, these standard holders of Western civilization have waged wars big and small, and killed so many people that it is a wonder there is such a thing as overpopulation. Thus, when we hear that all of them have pledged to stand firmly by Israel, let us not be surprised they are only being consistent.
If there is to be peace in the Middle East, counting Palestine/Israel, social justice must be fashioned, sharing and fellow feeling cultivated, acceptance and understanding of others nurtured, none of which exists for Palestinians in Gaza or the West Bank, letting compassion naturally come about.
