While Palestine’s envoy to the UN says that the Security Council resolution is a step in the right direction, others have called it “toothless” and “utterly meaningless” to civilians in Gaza. Meanwhile, Israel continues its military raids into Jenin.
The evidence for Israel’s commission of acts of genocide in Gaza is irrefutable. International law gives states the tools to stop them from happening.
Israeli forces have reportedly conducted extrajudicial executions in front of families in Gaza as international leaders continue to discuss Israel’s conduct with little to no action, while negotiations between Israel and Hamas waver as war rages on.
My grandparents’ story of surviving the Holocaust taught me what genocide is, and it is how I know to condemn what Israel is doing to Gaza right now. How dare Israel exploit my family’s suffering to try to justify its genocide in Gaza.
“Palestinians shouldn’t be blamed for not being good victims. Israel’s military aircrafts, tanks, and warships can destroy Palestinians’ houses, but not their homes; their bodies, but not their spirits.”
Global leaders must move beyond non-binding votes and symbolic gestures to boycotting Israel and making it a pariah state on the world stage. That is what will halt the genocide in Gaza.
In a wide-ranging interview, Craig Mokhiber reflects on his time as Director of the New York Office of the UN’s High Commissioner of Human Rights after he stepped down in protest over the UN’s failure to prevent a “textbook case of genocide” in Gaza.
An Israeli airstrike killed the father of an Al Jazeera correspondent in Jabalia, while Houthi rebels launched a missile on a ship scheduled to dock in Ashdod. In the West Bank, Israeli forces executed a Palestinian boy in Tubas in cold blood.
“This is the call of all the Palestinian families, the thousands of children who were killed, including my son Abdullah. Our call is to all free people across the world. Please stop this genocide.”
The system of international law affords impunity to the strong, while the weak are lectured on humanity, which they are denied, and the value of the rule of law and human rights, which do not seem to apply to them.