For more than two months, the world has been watching with horror and incredulity how civilians are being slaughtered in Gaza.
The graphic depicts the human suffering that had occurred after 56 days. In cold numbers. It has since become worse by the day. The civilian death toll now exceeds 20,000, not counting the thousands of children and mothers who are buried under the rubble of destroyed homes and buildings.
One UN Official said that Gaza is the worst and least safe place for children in the world. Others, UN Staff (over 100 UN employees, mainly UNWRA, have been killed) and journalists who are still alive (over 100 already dead, including senior Al Jazeera reporters and a cameraman who the broadcaster said were targeted), decry the horrors that occur after every indiscriminate bombing spree of the Israeli armed forces. I need not highlight the catastrophe in more detail. The facts are available to everybody who wants to see. Including all those who say “but, October 7” – as if that attack were to justify the daily bombings of civilians (and Israel’s own citizens, three hostages who were waving a white cloth) ever since.
Craig Murray, a Scottish author, human rights campaigner, journalist, and former UK diplomat, recently posted this:
“Yesterday I attended a session called by Palestine at the United Nations in Geneva. Over 120 states attended. While the formal session consisted of statements of national position with few surprises, I was able to discuss with a large number of delegates in the corridors why the Genocide Convention has not been activated, triggering a reference to the International Court of Justice.
“The answer is now clear to me. It is not that people are worried that a claim of genocide will not be successful at the International Court of Justice. It is that everybody is quite sure it will succeed. There is no respectable argument that this is not a genocide…
“The problem is that once the ICJ has determined that this is a genocide, it follows that not only are Netanyahu and hundreds of senior Israeli officials and military personally liable, but it is absolutely plain that ‘Genocide Joe’ Biden, Sunak and members of their administrations are also criminally liable for co