They have repeatedly hampered the entry of baby formula, a clear pattern of actions to stunt childhood development, increase childhood mortality and dissuade the population from having more children.
I don't know anything about that but the Gazan population cannot supply itself and is dependent on Israel for basic necessities. In the background of that you cannot conclude the intend of genocide, that is ridiculous. On the contrary...
hampered the entry of baby formula => They commit genocide - If the topic were less serious, it would be good comedy...
Gaza is dependent on Israel's permission. Food aid is provided by the UN and other humanitarian organisations, they require Israel's permission to bring that aid into Gaza and not attack it (n.b. attempts since 2010 to deliver aid by boat, such as the MV Rachel Corrie, have been attacked in international waters and the aid never reached Gaza). Israel destroyed the power and water desalination plants, making Gaza dependent on their supply, which has since been used as a weapon.
Since '93, the range allowed for Palestinian fishing boats has been reduced from 20 to 3 nautical miles by Israeli naval vessels. Because primarily only young fish are found that close to the shore, and because constant damage to infrastructure means untreated wastewater is being dumped close by, it's a pretty bleak picture.
According to the article, nobody actually knows when the attack took place. And the BBC is assuming that it was an Israel attack, even though 1/3 to 1/6 of Hamas rockets fall back into Gaza - that is disingenuous. Furthermore, the single photograph of the clinic shows absolutely zero kinetic damage. How does an Israeli shell or bomb leave no kinetic damage? The Hamas rockets leave little to no kinetic damage as they are fuel-air bombs, not HE.
You can read up about the members of the Pillay commission, the "Top UN legal investigators", yourself. It is just ridiculous. Reminder that thousands of rockets rained on Israel on October 7th.
Crying genocide after such an attack when your enemy retaliates and retaliates very harshly in the context of middle eastern politics will never be reasonable. Hamas is free to surrender and everything would stop tomorrow.
I quoted from the report, you can make up your mind yourself. But you already did anyway.
Pillay is from the Apartheid crew, that just ignores a side of this conflict. A side that is very much not tolerant of everyone else. Bad and unconvincing report.
Reminder that Israel razed hundreds of Palestinian villages to the ground in 1948, and expelled half the Palestinian population from their homeland. Israel has always wanted to ethnically cleanse Palestine of the indigenous population. It has resisted any diplomatic route to a two-state solution, going as far as financing Hamas because Fatah was moving towards a peaceful resolution, and Hamas was seen as an adversary against whom ethnic cleansing would be easier to justify.
Israel is quite literally built on top of the ruins of Palestinian villages. The zionist project has always required an ethnic cleansing of the indigenous population, because the project's goal is to build an ethnostate. This is just culminating in the current genocide.
> Israel is quite literally built on top of the ruins of Palestinian villages
The entire region was historically Jewish. As a simple example, consider the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. It is literally built on the ruins of a Jewish temple from BC times. That is long before any Arabs lived in the area, and long before Islam was invented.
There’s also no such thing as a “Palestinian village” because there is no such identity as Palestinian in truth. There’s just Islamic Arabs who tried to take over this land and claim it is their homeland when their homeland is really elsewhere.
> It has resisted any diplomatic route to a two-state solution
There were at least 5 different offers for a two-state solution historically. The people calling themselves “Palestinian” rejected every one of those. The real reason that can be deduced from this, is that they just don’t want a Jewish state to exist anywhere in any capacity.
This is full of dishonest talking points so I will only address some of them to show others just how dishonest they are. Saying Palestinians aren't part of a nation is some racist bullshit.
You're denying Palestinians their nationhood even though Palestinians have had a national identity for longer than Israel has existed. Just to humour you, Palestine has multiple world famous national symbols, like the Jaffa orange, the keffiyeh, and the Dabke. All older than Zionist plans to take over the region.
The Palestinians haven't moved to Palestine recently, they've mostly been moved _out_ of Palestine, or moved into Gaza by Israel from elsewhere in their homeland. People whose families have lived in Palestine for generations are denied their right of return by Israel, even though this was rules a condition in UN resolution 194. Why would we even be talking about a right to return if Palestine isn't their homeland? The people whose homelands are elsewhere are the Israeli settlers.
I will agree that the region was jewish thousands of years ago. Nobody alive today is reaponsible for that, and the Palestinians are also descendants of the jewish people who lives there at the time. The Nakba happened in 1948, and the state of Israel that was founded on the back of those crimes still exists and is still responsible. Just as an example, Tel Aviv university is built on the rujns of the village of Sheikh Munis, and some of its dorms are built on the village's graveyard (source: https://www.timesofisrael.com/high-court-tau-can-build-dorms...). This is acceptable to Israeli society because they view Palestinians as subhumans.
What is happening is so incredibly obvious to anyone with a brain who has at least a speck of humanity in them. Which is why it is so devastatingly horrifying that some people are cheering Israel on as it wipes out an indigenous population, and when our political system is doing absolutely nothing to stop them.
