Israel’s powerful weapon

112 Palestinians were killed and 706 were wounded when Israeli forces fired on a hungry crowd while trying to collect food from a convoy of trucks in Gaza City before dawn on 29 February. The bodies piled up among boxes of bloody humanitarian aid on the street, surrounded by relatives who were shaking their mutilated bodies in fear as if trying to revive them, testify to the efficiency of the new weapon. What Israel uses in its genocide against Palestinians: Hunger.

Israel has not released any weapons on Palestinians since its 1948 military campaign poisoned the aquifers of Palestinian villages with typhoid bacteria. He now intends to cause famine, especially in northern Gaza, where he is preventing thousands of people living in rubble from receiving aid from UN agencies. The decline in the nutritional status of the population over the past three months is “unprecedented at the global level”, the organization said, which has seen its efforts to distribute much-needed food, such as on 5 February, when a convoy of Palestinian refugees headed to the United Nations The agency (UNRWA) was attacked by the Zionist state. It was not appropriate for Israel to intercept a convoy of 10 trucks heading north on a route previously agreed with UNRWA and, an hour later, bomb it from the sea, which is a war crime. ; The same working style About their bombing of schools and aid centers of this organization.

Palestinian children orphaned by the “only democracy” in the Middle East wander through the streets with fried stews recovered from the debris in their hands, crying out for something to eat. “Children are dying of hunger at the fastest rate the world has ever seen,” Raquel Martí, executive director of UNRWA Spain, posted on her X account.

European Union, France and Germany demanded an independent investigation flour massacre, Angry voices from European politicians expressed regret over the events – such as the French President, Emmanuel Macron, who expressed his “strong condemnation”, or the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, who described herself as “deeply disturbed” by the images. Expressed. Attacks against civilians – in the face of undeniable images that the Israeli military itself disseminated on its social networks with pretexts that attempt to shift the blame onto the victims. But this belated rhetoric from those who have given Israel a free hand, perhaps fueled by citizen outrage over its silence and complicity in the genocide in an election year, proved hollow as it was accompanied by no No concrete action was taken that could force it to stop.

The orchestration of this new massacre and the publication of the video came at the very moment when President Biden, in an election year, was counting on achieving a ceasefire to prevent the resentment of his party’s progressive base over its unrestricted support for Israel – Exclusive Formally, after the protest vote in the Michigan primary – we should wonder if this is not an attempt by Netanyahu to boycott his allies’ plans to reach a peace deal and recognize Palestinian statehood and, incidentally, to favor the Republican candidate. After all, in recent days he made clear: “I will not compromise on full Israeli security control over all areas west of Jordan, and this is contrary to Palestinian statehood.” He then introduced a motion in parliament against international efforts to pursue a peace agreement and recognize the Palestinian state, which was approved by a majority.

Since this genocide began, the moral compass has pointed north towards the few governments of the Global South, which are the only governments to adjust their speech and actions to the gravity of the events. Such is the case of South Africa and its case in the International Court of Justice, and most recently, in reaction to the events of February 29, of Colombia, whose President Gustavo Petro announced that he would suspend arms purchases. Israel. , Conversely, on the same day the Spanish Congress voted on a proposal to suspend arms trade with that country in the same sense, but despite having the support of the PSOE, it did not succeed.

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Like President Petro, Brazilian Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been critical of the atrocities that Israeli forces are committing against the Palestinian civilian population, which have already taken more than 30,000 lives. During the African Union summit in Ethiopia, President Lula declared: “What is happening in the Gaza Strip to the Palestinian people has not happened at any other time in history. In fact, this happened: When Hitler decided to kill the Jews. In his complaint he highlighted that this was “a war between a very unprepared army and women and children.” He also criticized the decision of several countries not to fund UNRWA based on alleged evidence that Israel has not yet provided and as reported Guardian, United States intelligence agencies have expressed skepticism. In response to Lula’s statements, Netanyahu accused him of trivializing anti-Semitism and genocide – because, logically, for him the lives of Palestinians and their suffering are something trivial – and declared that persona non grata,

However, Lula is not the first person to draw parallels between the terror endured by Jews in Nazi Germany and what Palestinians have endured at the hands of Zionism. In 2002, on a visit to Ramallah (West Bank), the Portuguese writer José Saramago said that the situation created by the Israelis in the Palestinian territories reminded him of Auschwitz. In a later interview he explained: “Surrounded by the Israeli army, surrounded by more than 200 settler settlements, Palestinian towns and villages, cut off from roads, have been transformed into authentic Jewish settlements, where you cannot enter. And where you can’t go.” Leave without permission from Israeli military forces. The behavior of these forces and, above all, the spirit driving them, is similar to Nazi action and spirit.

Israel is angered by comparisons between the crimes its military commits daily against Palestinians and those committed by the Nazis; However, it is inevitable that our collective memory finds reference in the horrors of the Holocaust that the Zionist state has imposed on the Palestinians of Gaza today.

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