In its most recent report, titled Our Genocide, the Israeli-Palestinian human rights organization B’Tselem referred to Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocide.
Israel’s war against Gaza, which has claimed at least 59 lives, 733 lives, and injured 144, 477 people, is strongly condemned in the report, which was released on Monday.
The report’s analysis of Israel’s policy in the Gaza Strip and its horrifying outcomes, in addition to statements from senior Israeli politicians and military commanders about the attack’s objectives, leads to the unmistakable conclusion that Israel is engaging in concerted action to purposefully destroy Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip.
In other words, Israel is murdering Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
During the Hamas-led attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023, an estimated 1, 139 people died, and 200 were taken prisoner.
Our Genocide:
The report explores Israeli violations against Palestinians, going back to the 1948 founding of the Israeli state, which “had a clear goal from the beginning: to cement the Jewish group’s supremacy over the entire territory under Israeli control.”
According to the report, the state of Israel exhibits “settler-colonial patterns, including widespread settlements that involve displacement and dispossession, demographic engineering, ethnic cleansing, and the imposing of military rule on Palestinians.”
The report notes that this was accelerated after October 7 as it looked back at Israel’s efforts to “uphold Jewish supremacy, relying on a false pretense of the rule of law while, in reality, the rights of the Palestinian subjects are left unprotected.”
The report claims that the majority of Jewish-Israelis and the Israeli legal system have praised the “broad, coordinated onslaught against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.”
Additionally, the report discusses the increased Palestinian displacement efforts in Gaza since October 2024.
Many experts attributed Israel’s actions to an attempt at ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza. By November 2024, roughly 100 000 people living in northern Gaza had been driven out of their homes, according to the document.
Beyond Gaza, the report claims that since 1967, Israel has increased its violent activities in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
In 2021, B’Tselem first used the term “apartheid” to describe the two-tier reality that Palestinians and Israelis in historically Palestinian territory are subject to.
Genocide in deeds and deeds
Amos Goldberg, a scholar of the Holocaust, wrote in an article in the New York Times about the rise in protests in Israel and the condemnation of Israel’s actions in Gaza.
However, Israeli society continues to be divided over Israel’s war against Gaza. According to a Pew Research Center poll conducted in June, only about 16 percent of Jewish Israelis consider it possible to coexist peacefully with Palestinians.
According to a survey conducted by the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs (JCFA), 64 percent of Jewish Israelis oppose Israel’s temporary occupation of the Gaza Strip.
Israeli political commentator Ori Goldberg, a former professor and national security consultant, has been accused of being anti-Semitic. He also wrote on the social media platform X that these views are “vile.”
Yesterday, I was overcome. I had a 24-hour mouth shut due to Israeli society’s vile behavior. Not sadness or anger, it was an immediate response. I was unable to speak. For the first time since receiving a diagnosis, I hives. I believe I attempted to refute reality. I’m back. …
Elia Ayoub, a writer, researcher, and host of the podcast The Fire These Times, told Al Jazeera, “I can only draw the conclusion that the pressures from within Israeli society are truly as great as Ori Goldberg recently noted.”
He continued, “Israeli society has normalized a genocide for nearly two years, which demonstrates the deep moral rot at the core of their political culture.”
Israeli government officials have been making violent phone calls to the Gazan population in the interim.
“Thank God we are erasing this evil, the government is rushing to destroy Gaza. Jewish people will be the only people in Gaza, Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu declared last week on Israeli radio.
Even if it was late, welcomed news
The 79-page report by B’Tselem includes interviews with numerous Palestinians in Gaza who have endured the last 22 months of attacks.
Israel’s most renowned human rights organization’s use of the phrase “genocide” to refer to Israel’s actions in Gaza is likely to stifle the organization. Israeli compatriots have brutally attacked many of their own country’s actions in Gaza.
Even though some people think it could have been done sooner, B’Tselem uses the weight of the word “genocide” to make it even stronger.
Even though it comes very late into the genocide, Ayoub said, “I welcome this news.”
Source: Aljazeera
Leave a Reply