Yes and it was part of the plan “to make Gaza uninhabitable”, according to an article I shared from Israeli newspaper written a month ago.
There were two posters on here who kept insisting Israel has no choice but to “defend itself” in the manner they chose (targeting women and children and internationally recognised safe zones -though they used the disgusting propaganda line “human shields”, you know, Israel has no option but to blow up that school/ hospital/ refugee camp etc…) but I thought they might just not realise what they were supporting…
I shared that article and the subsequent report by a British Palestinian doctor working in Gaza that warned it was an intentional humanitarian catastrophe that will claim tens of thousands of lives… I asked for their thoughts. I really wanted to know if they realised what was happening, totally unconnected to getting rid of Hamas.
One replied saying she’d have a think, never replied afterwards. The other wrote about how Hamas had contacted other terrorist organisations asking for them to assist them. That was her reply. I remember she said she was “anti-war”… and yet she didn’t seem to blink when confronted with genocide.
I cannot express how disturbed I was. A reveal of the fact they kind of knew it was nothing to do with Hamas really. Somehow people have, over the past two months, gotten on board with the intentional killing of innocent civilians, women and little children using starvation, unclean water and epidemic spread as weapons of war in intentionally overpopulated camps.
Where do you go from there? When people confuse their utter lack of humanity for pragmatism, saying “oh well that’s war”, despite there being rules to war that this particular onslaught has violated so outrageously, and promises to continue doing so. What it is Hannah Arendt wrote… the banality of evil?
I am so so scared for those people in Gaza. God help them.
And then, all those denialists… they won’t believe the figures even from the nyt. I think deep down they know though.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/25/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-death-toll.html?fbclid=IwAR1c2VBJyCAbn1989bfQMFfxWzrtRlr-6-g6Asq5DSn3wxg273nnGlu7idU