Source: Chicago Tribune
Caption: Gaza Under Heavy Israeli Bombardment
The genocide in Gaza has been occuring for 130 days and counting. 130 days of constant bombardment, terror, worry, fear, and indiscriminate killing. 130 days and the world is standing idly by and watching as Gaza is starved and burned to the ground.
130 days and over 30,000 martyrs, tens of thousands more injured, and 2 million Palestinians displaced. Over 1 million of those displaced in Gaza have been forced to move south of the Strip to Rafah.
What we’re seeing unfold before our very eyes is a second Nakba.
The word “Nakba” in Arabic translates to “catastrophe,” and refers to the event in which over 750,000 Palestinians were ethnically cleansed in 1948 to make way for the creation of the Zionist entity of Israel.
As the younger generation of Palestinians, it’s hard to imagine what the Nakba was like. Unfortunately, we are now watching a second Nakba occur in real-time from our phone screens.
This second Nakba has surpassed the numbers of the first with over 2 million Palestinians displaced and double the number of martyrs. It’s unfortunate to say that what is to come will be worse.
Since Oct. 7, 2023, Palestinians in North Gaza have been advised to evacuate their homes and move south of the Gaza Strip, as the North was going to be destroyed by Israeli forces and therefore deemed “unsafe.”
This was a blatant lie. On Oct. 13, as thousands of Palestinians were moving South on indicated “safe routes,” they were bombed.
Following all previous warnings to flee and evacuate, over 1 million Palestinians have been internally displaced into the Palestinian city of Rafah which directly borders Egypt. A city with a population of approximately 300,000 prior to Oct. 7, now houses 1.2 million refugees. That’s half of Gaza’s entire population…living in tents.
According to Al Jazeera, on Feb. 9, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “ordered the military to develop a plan to evacuate civilians from Rafah, where more than half of Gaza’s population is sheltering with nowhere to flee. Human rights groups have said an Israeli assault on the packed area would be ‘catastrophic’ for civilians and stressed that it must not be allowed to go forward.”
Most of Gaza’s current population are already refugees from other Palestinian cities from the first Nakba. Where are the Palestinians supposed to go? What more are they supposed to do?
All anyone is doing is expressing their fear of what might happen to Palestinians in the coming days without doing anything about it. I have to reiterate that words without action are meaningless.
It seems that we are far from a ceasefire as Netanyahu will not leave Gaza or “end the war and will push on until ‘total victory’ over [Hamas],” according to Al Jazeera, as Israel has declined and refused any agreements to end the aggressions.
I’m not entirely sure what “victory” Netanyahu is referring to; is the destruction of the hundreds of thousands of housing units, dozens of destroyed hospitals, and over 30,000 martyrs not enough?
Netanyahu’s comments come less than two weeks after the International Court of Justice ruling in that Israel must take “all measures within its power” to prevent acts that could amount to genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip,” according to Al Jazeera.
As of Feb. 2, Israel has ignored the orders made by the ICJ and killed over 1,000 Palestinians, according to Anadolu Ajansi. That’s just one week after the ICJ ruling, and does not take into account the hundreds of Palestinians massacred since then.
Netanayhu’s comments are very disturbing and barbaric to listen to. It’s hard to imagine that someone with this much hatred and terror filled in his heart is still being supported and funded by the billions. What’s even more frightening is that his armed forces and many citizens support him and share these exact thoughts.
It is abundantly clear Netanyahu and those in his Zionist entity are not here to make peace or care about human life. These barbarians crave human blood and are prepared to do anything until they see the end of the Palestinians.
They are committed to continue what they started in 1948 and this is something that we, as the free people of the world, as human beings on this earth, must work to stop.
Palestinians should not be forced to leave their homes under any circumstances. No one should be forced to be a refugee or forced to be another nation’s responsibility.
Let Palestinians live. Save Gaza. Free Palestine.
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