Destroy the destroyer and bomb the bombed

The planes returned to bomb the Baptist Hospital in Gaza for a second time, to confirm the approach of terrorism, genocide and the crushing of everything, from people, trees and stones. After the occupation forces bombed the Baptist Hospital, committing a major, hideous massacre on October 17, 2023, which resulted in more than 500 martyrs and hundreds of wounded and injured, they returned and bombed it a second time to erase the features of the oldest hospital in the Gaza Strip, which was founded in 1882.

The annihilation of everything in Gaza, the erasure of landmarks and sites in a complete purification of geography, the erasure of history, and the continuation of mass killing, not only as a war crime, but as a systematic policy, implemented by the occupation machine with the highest levels of brutality according to racist Nazi plans, without accountability or deterrence, and in full view of the world that sees and witnesses the most horrific massacres and does not move to stop the ongoing slaughter, while the people of Gaza are subjected to continuous bombing, and death by bombing and starvation.

The Baptist Hospital, this venerable medical facility that has served the people of Gaza for more than a century, was not a military site, nor did it pose any threat. Rather, it was a shelter for the wounded, for children, women, and the elderly who fled the flames of war in search of a safe haven. But the killing machine, merciless and persistent, confirmed at every moment that "there is no safe place in Gaza."

The second bombing of the hospital wasn't just a targeting of the building itself. It was an attack on people's memories, obliterating the place and all its vestiges of hope in an attempt to rebuild the ruins. The repeated targeting exposes the ongoing genocidal intent and confirms that this aggression is not a reaction or a military operation to free hostages, as the government of murder and terror claims. Rather, it is a systematic cleansing aimed at perpetuating the genocide, obstructing all understandings brokered by mediators.

Amidst this bloody scene, the world stands helpless, complicit, or content with cold diplomatic statements, while children die under the rubble, women and the elderly lie in the open, and the wounded bleed to death for lack of hospitals or doctors.

The genocide in Gaza continues, and people are homeless, without food, and without hospitals capable of providing treatment. The blockade continues and the suffering intensifies. Who will lift this injustice, this death and killing? Who will stop the genocide? It is a vile world, and its silence is a stain on humanity. How long will this silence continue? This blindness that ignores the massacres, slaughter, genocide, and ethnic cleansing?