The USA abstained from the first ceasefire resolution in Gaza, adopted by the Security Council since the start of the war, which angered Netanyahu.
He wanted Washington to exercise its veto. Subsequently, as a retaliatory measure, he cancelled his delegation’s trip to Washington.
At the same time, the ceasefire never held as Israel continued its attacks on the remaining strip of Gaza while targeting Rafah.
The decision of the Security Council remained on paper. Just as it did in 1974 in Cyprus when during ceasefire periods the Turkish occupying army advanced.
Decisions, as is known, are meant to be implemented by the weak! The Americans, who have angered Netanyahu, still claim, in the context of appeasement, that the US government has “no reason to believe that Israel has committed acts of genocide in Gaza.”
A statement made to “condemn” the report of the UN special rapporteur, according to which there are “reasonable grounds” to believe that Israel committed many “acts of genocide” against Palestinians in Gaza, also referring to “ethnic cleansing.”
If it were another case, concerning another country, sanctions would obviously already be imposed. Israel is not facing sanctions. If Netanyahu were from another country, he would be accused of war crimes.
Nader Jerada, 33 years old, speaking to a Palestinian-Israeli website, www.972mag.com, stated, “We are exhausted from hunger. I want to scream that we have no food. I have six children: six mouths to feed. Yesterday, my daughter cried from hunger… Before the war, I helped everyone and fed everyone, but look at us now: we eat raw wheat and barley, even animal feed which, like everything else, is running out in the market…”
Another person, Said Sweirki, mentioned, “We have become like animals. Our lives have no meaning, and nobody cares about us. We scream, starve, and die alone. Does the world know we eat animal feed? We live without life’s basic necessities: without electricity, water, fuel. We gather firewood for hours from the streets and destroyed houses. We have returned to the Stone Age.”
Another, Bashir, stood day and night to get flour but had no luck. His two sons were killed during Israeli airstrikes, leaving him to care for his grandchildren. In a multitude of desperate and starving people, the chances of getting a handful of flour are slim.
The situation in Gaza, based on descriptions from the United Nations, volunteer doctors in the area, is tragic.
Famine is mentioned. Humanitarian aid, apart from that by sea from Cyprus, which recently started, is dropped from the air, with parachutes, showing the way Israel manages the issue.
The head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, during his speech at the UN Security Council in mid-March, went so far as to denounce the use of hunger by Israel as a “war weapon” in the Gaza Strip.
Netanyahu, through war, tries to save his skin and his presence in politics.
He drags his country into an ongoing war. He cannot exterminate, or eradicate the Palestinians. Even if he kills all the inhabitants of Gaza, and levels the West Bank, those Palestinians who remain, either within Palestine or outside, will never rest until liberation. Obviously, he knows this.
It is clear that international hypocrisy, the crocodile tears, have no counterpart if preventive measures are not taken.
The way the war in Gaza, the genocide, and the ethnic cleansing, is treated, allows the occupying power to continue. And this is a crime.
