War Crimes against Palestinians Never Stopped
BY Ibrahim Ebeid.
October 12.2023
Israel, since its inception, was established on terrorism, violence, and ethnic cleansing. Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their homes at gunpoint. More than seven decades have passed and the situation is worsening, killing the Palestinians in the West Bank, confiscating their land, and displacing them never stopped. Detention of adults, children, and women is widespread, and Gaza became an open concentration camp deprived of the minimum requirement of living necessities.
The United States and the European governments are aligning themselves with the Zionist entity, they are sending arms and military support to Israel. Haaretz recently stated that the United States might allow Israel to use the US arsenal depots kept in Israel.
The speeches that we hear daily, from American leaders and the Europeans against the Palestinians are inflammatory and sickening, they give ammunition to Benjamin Netanyahu and his clique to continue committing war crimes and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. West pro-Israel stand motivated Netanyahu to say that the Middle East will not be the same.
Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) have recently faced perhaps unprecedented repression. During the first nine months of 2023, Israeli authorities killed more Palestinians in the West Bank in 2023 than in any year since the United Nations began systematically recording fatalities in 2005.
The bombing of the Gaza Strip is considered a form of genocide, and the situation is extremely menacing, while I am writing this article, the Israeli terror campaign and bombing destroyed 22,639 housing units and 10 health institutions, 48 schools were damaged, and the death toll rose to more than 900 martyrs, and 4,550 were injured according to the Ministry of Health, among the martyrs were 260 children and 230 women, while 10% of the casualties were children. A friend of mine from Gaza told me that the family of his uncle was entirely killed, among them children, the youngest one year old.
Massive bombing of civilians, schools, and hospitals, cutting off electricity and water, and confiscating lands is a crime against humanity.
