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Palestinians in Gaza are fleeing the bombs as the US reaffirms its unwavering support for Israel
Israel’s prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu has declared “a significant operation in Gaza” has begun—the same day as a United Nations special commission announced that Israel is committing genocide.
On Tuesday, a new report commissioned by the UN found that Israel is both committing genocide and has failed in its responsibility to prevent it. The report further found “direct evidence of genocidal intent”.
“We came to the conclusion that genocide is occurring in Gaza and is continuing to occur, and the responsibility lies with the State of Israel,” lead judge Navi Pillay said.
Predictably, Israel’s foreign ministry rejected this as “Hamas falsehoods”. “Israel categorically rejects this distorted and false report and calls for the immediate abolition of this commission of inquiry,” it said.
Israel’s brutality in Gaza has consistently escalated—but it has again declared a ramping up of the horror.
“The situation is getting more dangerous day after day,” Palestinian journalist Alaa told Socialist Worker.
“Israel is insisting on emptying the Gaza City of people. They are targeting all the towers that are left and every residential building in all areas across Gaza,” she added.
On Tuesday, defence minister Israel Katz boasted that Gaza is “burning”. And he said that Israeli forces will strike the city with an “iron fist”.
The Israeli occupation has said it has bombed 850 targets in the last week alone. “We will not stop and we will not retreat until we accomplish our mission,” Katz warned.
In the morning alone, Israel massacred at least 48 Palestinians, targeting residential buildings and so-called “safe zones”. The escalating genocidal operation has now forced 350,000 Palestinians to flee Gaza City.
“I left my place in Gaza because Israel hit my area hard with fire belts and heavy bombing,” Alaa said.
“I have evacuated to the middle of the Gaza Strip by the one way out through Al-Rashid beside the sea—in a very long queue of people and cars, all kinds of transportation.
“I spent about eight hours in the route to cross and reach the middle of the Gaza Strip. It was humiliating. I feel desperate because you are forced to leave your home and experience the displacement over and over again,” she added.
The facilitator of this destruction, the United States, is doing the rounds. US secretary of state Marco Rubio visited Netanyahu. There, he reaffirmed the unwavering support for Israel from the US.
“Rubio’s visit is a clear message that America stands with Israel in the face of terror.
“It’s obvious that Israel has no better ally than America,” Netanyahu said. “The American-Israeli alliance has never been as strong as it is now.”
That Israel felt capable of bombing Doha—the capital of Qatar, a key US ally in the region—shows Netanyahu’s confidence in US support. Rubio said that Trump didn’t support the attack, “He wasn’t happy with the way things went down”. But he added that the US won’t “stop being their partner and their ally”.
Rubio then went further, slamming the recent announcements from Britain, France and Canada that they will formally recognise a Palestinian state. Recognising Palestine, alongside Israel, offers nothing but crumbs of liberation for Palestinians. But Rubio claimed it “emboldened” Hamas.
Two things are clear. The US will ensure that its imperial watchdog will have unwavering support, whatever its actions. Israel, with its renewed barbarism in Gaza City and strike on Doha has no intention of stopping its genocidal onslaught.
