The international community has finally run out of patience with Israel.
By Bel Trew
International Correspondent
The Independent
My friends in Gaza – civilians who woke up on 7 October 2023 like the rest of the world, clueless, shocked, and scared – are on the run again this week. For the eighth time.
Israel bombed the building next to their home last week, blowing their neighbours – again, women, children – to pieces and burying them under more rubble.
Now the Israeli military is issuing new sweeping “evacuation” orders – dangerous directives that make no sense in the nightmare reality on the ground.
Under Israel’s total blockade, these friends struggle to eat, sometimes resorting to rotten food. They struggle to get clean water. They struggle to get nutrients to their young baby. They have lost dozens of extended family members. They have done nothing to deserve this.
Amid a level of suffering few have experienced in our lifetime, leaders of Britain, Canada, and France threatened “concrete action” against Israel if it does not stop its renewed military offensive and lift crippling restrictions on humanitarian aid.
Sir Keir Starmer and David Lammy followed up this threat, using the House of Commons to launch an excoriating attack on Israel’s treatment of Gaza – using language such as “monstrous”, “dangerous” and “utterly intolerable”.
This intervention came just a day after Benjamin Netanyahu vowed he was “taking control of all of Gaza” and an Israeli military spokesperson ominously admitted there was “no end date necessarily” to their new expanded, ferocious offensive.
The total blockade on all aid going into Gaza is so severe that it has put almost all of the 2.2 million population at risk of famine, according to the UN’s global food monitor. The impact is so great that it is “genocide in action” according to Amnesty International.
Even the largest group representing the families of the 58 remaining hostages and captives inside Gaza have begged Netanyahu to stop – warning that their loved ones will only return in body bags, if they are returned at all.
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