The Israeli genocide on its 129th day

As of today, Israel's genocidal attacks on the Palestinian people in Gaza are in their 129th day. After the International Court of Justice ruled that there was sufficient evidence for the crimes Israel has committed in this process to be considered within the scope of genocide, Israel continues its aggression without any pause.

Let us take a look at the balance sheet of the numerical manifestation of the genocide Israel has committed against Gaza after 129 days:

The number of those confirmed to have lost their lives in Israeli attacks so far has exceeded 28,000. Of these, 12,150 are children and 8,300 are women. Some 7,000 people are still under the rubble, whose bodies are waiting to be recovered in the same proportions, so that the total loss has reached 35,000. The number of wounded has exceeded 67,600. 2,437 massacres took place through bombings carried out while Palestinian families were inside their homes with their wives and children. At al-Ahli Hospital alone, the number of people who died as a result of the bombing on 17 October was 471. Meanwhile, 46 people from the civil defense rescue teams were killed while carrying out their duties.

Besides the massacres it has carried out since launching its ground operation, the Zionist genocidal force has abducted 2,500 Palestinians in Gaza and taken them to unknown places, and has killed some of them after abducting them.

340 health personnel, including doctors, nurses, and paramedics, have been killed, and 356 have been wounded by the Israeli army. More than 100 personnel have also been taken from hospitals while performing their medical duties, again to unknown places. Among these hospitals are al-Shifa, Indonesian, and al-Awda hospitals. 30 hospitals have been put completely out of service as a result of the Israeli attacks, making it impossible for the wounded to receive even the most basic health care. All health centers have been targeted and health services paralyzed; 122 ambulances have been targeted and destroyed with the patients inside them. More than 11 thousand wounded, though their condition is serious and they are awaiting emergency treatment, cannot be reached with even the most basic aid.

Meanwhile, as a result of Israeli attacks, 124 journalists have lost their lives, 80 have been seriously injured, and at least two have been arrested by the Israeli occupation forces. More than 170 media and press offices in Gaza have been targeted by the Israeli occupation army.

395 schools and universities have either been completely destroyed or seriously damaged as a result of Israeli attacks. 183 mosques have been completely destroyed and about 447 have been seriously damaged. 3 churches have been destroyed directly by Israeli attacks. 85 facilities of UNRWA, the UN-affiliated organization that delivers humanitarian aid to Palestine, have also been targeted by air strikes, while 1,720 industrial facilities have likewise been targeted and completely destroyed by the Israeli occupation forces.

Agricultural lands have also had their share of the Israeli attacks. 45 thousand dönüms of agricultural land have been devastated by the occupation force.

Between 7 October and 15 January, the weight of the bombs used in Israeli air strikes reached 75,000 tons. This amount is equivalent to twice the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in World War II.

About 500 thousand Palestinians still live in Gaza City and Northern Gaza. From the very beginning the Israeli occupation force has been trying to push people from the North to the South. It thinks only that once it has emptied the North of people entirely it will reach its goal of destroying Hamas more easily, but meanwhile it has not paused its attacks, and those who go to the South are in no way exempt from Israeli attacks either. The massacres of children, which are so terrifying to the whole world, seem to Israel more attractive than killing adults, because it is sure that these children will become its enemies when they grow up. The idea of killing them before they even grow up, of getting rid of them at the start of the road, seems to it much more attractive and easy. Of course, the thought that the Qassam Brigades, who are now making it pull out its roots, are the children of a generation whose fathers and mothers it once killed does not let go of its collar in this aggression. Killing in their cradles the generations of which each one will become a Qassam soldier when they grow up is, for the moment, very tempting.

This temptation is no different from the temptation of Pharaoh. Let no one expect its end to be any different from his. Israel is in vain imagining that an event that has always unfolded in the same way throughout history may unfold differently this time.

Its end will of course not be different. Each child that remains of those it killed with great lust will be sharpened much more, and will turn into a far greater power of vengeance. That is, if Israel has that much life left. Perhaps this time it will be the reverse. Before the children grow up to avenge their fathers, the conscience awakening in the world in the face of the massacre of children will bury Israel in history, together with all the powers that support it.

Israel is also preparing to attack Rafah, where the people it has pushed to the South have finally gathered, announcing it in advance. It is not that it does not know that for Gazans there is nothing beyond Rafah. It wants to make it thoroughly felt that no corner, no place in the whole Gaza Strip is safe for Palestinians. Thus it keeps continually breaking its own records in the baseness of war crimes. How much further can it sink, how much further can it depart from humanity? Every despicable stage reached, at which humanity cries enough, means that for Israel there is something further, something lower still.

Even the powers that support it are forced to say "this far." There can be no more. Seemingly its own patrons, the US first among them, do not approve of the striking of Rafah, where all the civilians have been pushed and gathered, and they oppose it.

Of course, what meaning and value remains in this opposition at this hour. The Hamas spokesman rightly says that the crocodile tears the US is displaying at this stage cannot exempt it from the genocide crimes committed so far: "The US administration's stance of not supporting the attack does not exempt it from the consequences of this attack and from the resulting killing of children, women, and defenseless civilians. It is providing open support to the occupation with the very weapons with which the Palestinian people are being killed."

On the 129th day the people of Gaza continue to die there, and the Israeli occupation force continues its massacres. While this is happening, where are we? In the bustle of what, in the calculation of which rush, which preoccupation, are we?

While this crime against humanity is being committed, there is someone keeping a record of who is where doing what; let us not forget.