Let this madness stop and let us search for a new formula to get out of the spiral of war

Things are still ambiguous at the beginning of the fourth week of the war on the Gaza Strip, and the situation is becoming more complex, and the suspicious international silence, to the point of complicity, increases the suffering of our people in the Gaza Strip and outside it at all levels. Since yesterday evening, all forms of contact and communication have been cut off, both between our people in the Gaza Strip and between them and their relatives outside the Gaza Strip, which increases human pain and suffering to an extent that the mind cannot imagine.

The Gaza Strip suffers from a shortage of water, a lack of electricity, a lack of food, and a continuous increase in the number of dead and wounded every moment. Cutting off the Internet and stopping telephone communications, whether by regular phones or cell phones, has paralyzed the work of ambulance crews and put people in a state of anxiety, as no one can know anything about his relatives or family, and they are all under insane bombardment, threatened with death and the destruction of their homes above their heads. . This concern is not limited to the citizens of Gaza, but also includes their families and relatives in the West Bank and abroad, who are placed in a state of terrible anxiety because they do not know anything about what is happening to their families in the Gaza Strip.
Israel, which has isolated the Gaza Strip from itself and from the outside, claims that disrupting or cutting off communication between the enemy army is justified in the fighting and part of it. It ignores the fact that by saying this it acknowledges and recognizes that it deals with every person in the Gaza Strip as a Hamas fighter, including those born Under the bombing, children, women, the elderly, the sick and the elderly, who are among the first victims of this war, suffer from these collective punishments that deprive them of a drink of pure water, a morsel of bread, or a pill of medicine, or transport them to receive treatment if they are injured as a result of the indiscriminate Israeli bombing, and even deprive them of transport. And bury them in cemeteries if the roofs of their homes fall on their heads or their bodies are torn by fragments of bombs that the Israeli army randomly rains on every inch of the land and sky of Gaza.

I said that the international silence is suspicious to the point of complicity, because what is happening in the Gaza Strip would not have been silent about by the international community if it was happening against any people other than the Palestinian people. It is clear that the life of the Palestinian person is worth nothing in the eyes of the world, or that there are those who are terrorizing the cowardly world and preventing it from Standing firmly against the crimes against humanity being committed in the Gaza Strip under the pretext that it is a war against Hamas, and everyone knows and realizes that the real victim of this war is the simple, defenseless people who do not play any role in the fighting.

This suspicious international silence, to the point of complicity, is not limited to silence on acts of killing and destruction, but also on the expansionist plans expressed by many Israeli leaders, which they summarized by saying that the goal is to displace the population of the Gaza Strip outside the borders of Gaza in a process of ethnic cleansing to establish Israeli hegemony over the Gaza Strip and expand Its patch of Palestinian land is a continuation of the Nakba of 1948 and has not stopped since then, which the Israeli Prime Minister described in the early seventies when she was asked where Israel’s borders are. She said that Israel’s borders are where the last Israeli soldier stands.

What is strange is that the American administration, which from the beginning took a supportive and biased position towards Israel and described its operations against the Gaza Strip as an exercise of Israel’s legitimate right to self-defense, declares its concern about harming Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip in a blatant contradiction between what it says verbally and what it supports its practice. actually. Even the simplest people who follow the ongoing Israeli military operations against the Gaza Strip know that the matter is not limited to a fight between the Israeli army and Hamas forces, but rather a revenge fight against an entire people, from children born and killed hours after their birth to children killed while holding their toys or searching for safety in... Hugging their mothers to women, men and elderly people who are not part of the ongoing fighting.

The humanitarian situation in Gaza is so critical that anyone who remains silent about it is considered an accomplice in the crime committed against civilians in the Strip. What is required now and immediately is to stop these ongoing crimes against civilians in the Gaza Strip and thus stop their repercussions on Israeli civilians. This is an international responsibility that falls primarily on the United States, the main supporter of Israel, which paralyzes the work of the UN Security Council in maintaining international peace and security, which is one of the most important. His duties in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and the role of international legitimacy in carrying out its duty is disrupted.

If this bloody war against defenseless civilians stops, the step that must follow immediately and without waiting is the release of the hostage Israeli civilians and the Palestinian prisoners, including children, Palestinian female prisoners, the elderly and the sick, and at the same time intensify the international, Palestinian and Arab efforts to agree on a new formula for managing the sector. After the failure of the current administration of Hamas, its reconstruction and laying the foundations for the start of a long-term political process that restores security, safety and stability to the region, which will only be achieved by achieving justice, security and stability for the Palestinian people and enabling them to exercise their right to self-determination and build their independent state on their national soil. Let this be the last of the wars and the beginning of a process of achieving peace, security and stability for the benefit of the peoples of the region