Unforgivable brutality

The world continues to bear silent witness to the erasure of Gaza and its people from the map, as yet another horrifying chapter in Israel’s relentless campaign of violence against healthcare workers, journalists and civilians in general. The latest attack that simultaneously triggered global outrage and zero state action from any world power is the attack on a Gaza hospital, which killed 22 people, including five journalists. The attack is fairly being compared to “double-tap strike”, which is the term used for when terrorists attack first responders arriving at the site of an earlier terrorist attack, because there is no terrorist group in the world that has spilled more innocent blood than the Israeli military.

Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the deaths of more people than Osama Bin Laden. Even before the genocidal campaign that began after the October 7, 2023 terrorist attack, Netanyahu had the blood of tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians on his hands during his previous 15 years in charge. In the current campaign of bloodlust, according to Israeli military data and other sources, less than 17% of the over 62,000 people killed in Gaza were “militants”.

But for some defenders of Israel, it does not matter if the war crimes were literally caught live on camera, as the second strike on Nasser Hospital was. Israel’s military has officially claimed the attack on the hospital was intended to destroy a camera. If true, that would mean — in the best-case scenario — Israel believes a camera holds more value than the lives of several healthcare workers and journalists.

In fact, so far, there is no proof that any of the victims were Hamas fighters. Meanwhile, an Israeli military spokesman said on record that Reuters and AP journalists were not targeted, suspiciously failing to mention the Al Jazeera journalists who were also killed. Sadly, no amount of civilian deaths or even forced starvation seems to matter, as the US, Germany and other Israeli allies undercut any attempt to sanction the world’s most dangerous rogue state.