Genocide, cartoon of 14/10/2023 in CTXT
TR: Civilian! (The sign reads "Private Hunting Strip")
This new chapter in what the media has been calling the"conflict" for decades began on Saturday 7 October at around 6.30 a.m. local time (11:30 p.m. on Friday, 6 October) when the first rockets fired from Gaza began to fall in Israel.
Shortly afterwards, armed militants from the jihadist Islamist group Hamas were firing into the south from Gaza in an air and ground operation they called "Storm al-Aqsa". On the way, they pass an open-air music festival, murdering people unceremoniously and taking others hostage.
The rest is already known because the terrible images have travelled the world and for many it is the only trigger for the humanitarian catastrophe (one of many that have occurred in the area over the past decades). Many media outlets told the story of the killings and kidnappings as if the area was a haven of peace until the Hamas attack.
Benjamin Netanyahu announces that the country is at war and is preparing an imminent incursion. From this point onwards, as in any other such circus, the news comes one after the other at such a speed that no human being is able to digest it. This does not even serve as a summary because much more happened in between.
Israel's energy minister, Israel Katz, also announces that electricity, water and fuel supplies to Gaza will be cut off until Hamas returns the hostages. All this makes access to health, food and communications even more difficult. The first phase of civilian punishment was underway.
At first, Israel "recommends" (forces under threat of death) the civilian population of Gaza to leave the area, while at the same time bombarding them heavily, killing both those who try to flee and those who still remain in their homes.
Later, in a supposedly "merciful" act, it would extend the deadline for evacuation by a few more hours, without, however, allowing them to be massacred. Meanwhile, the propaganda machine continues to work at full throttle so that the rest of the world will take the genocide for granted.
The situation is aggravated by the lack of medicines and by the fact that the hospitals remain in the area to be evacuated. Israel is clear, it does not want witnesses and gives Médecins Sans Frontières seven hours to evacuate Al Awda hospital in the Gaza Strip.
Other uncomfortable witnesses who are falling are journalists. Seven journalists have been killed in seven days in Gaza and Lebanon while carrying out their work. The Israeli government has never been one to hide much when it comes to liquidating them either.
Evacuating almost 1.1 million people, roughly half of the population, south to the Egyptian border is a virtual impossibility and a death sentence. It is also likely to be an excuse for evicting the population with no possibility of return
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas rejected the mass forced displacement of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, comparing it to the 1948 exile ordered by the Israeli army because "it would be a second Nakba ('catastrophe' in Arabic) for our people", he told the Palestinian news agency Wafa.
Meanwhile, here, many sociopaths justify a more-than-announced genocide by pulling the classics of Israeli propaganda, you know, all Palestinians are guilty and act as human shields and "they deserve it", and so on. Once again, for Israel, the strategy is to normalise dehumanisation by fattening the idea that anyone in Palestine is no longer a person, everyone becomes a Nazi or an"animal".
Hatred does its work and permeates even those who should be defending the values of the humanitarian Europe they promulgate.
For example, two buttons. But there are many more.
Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, decided to rush to visit Israel and support Netanyahu with statements contrary to the EU's official position.
And there you have Javier Lambán, deputy and secretary general of the PSOE in Aragón, inventing legitimate and democratic genocides. This will be the only portrait that the wretched Javier will leave for history.
In different European countries(in Spain as well) those who demonstrate against genocide are repressed and people are even arrested and/or beaten for carrying a Palestinian flag or wearing a Palestinian headscarf, as in Germany. This has not stopped the protests from gathering crowds in different places.
Little by little, they are backtracking in the face of the escalation and the response of society, but always with a small mouth and without condemning or sanctioning Israel (which has carte blanche to bomb any country at will) so as not to inconvenience the genocidal and they announce that they are doubling and tripling the humanitarian aid budget for Gaza.
I could, and perhaps should, write for another while because many important details get buried, but I'll leave it at this point. Beware of all those who see only a terrorist attack in this story.
