This article byBarbara Nimri Azizwas first published by Global Research in August 2024.
Despite the 2025 ceasefire agreement, Israeli military operations in Gaza have continued, with deaths still being reported on an almost daily basis.
As the war involving Iran intensifies and dominates international headlines, the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza is increasingly being pushed to the margins.
We must not allow the suffering in Gaza to be forgotten before it is too late.
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Israel is forcing our civilization to lose its humanity.It has already forcedICJto lose its authority.
It has stilled the dreams of democracy. It has smothered the mission of countless journalists. It has punished and intimidated university presidents and forced the dismal of principled staff. It hasquelled the moral consciousness of young people who believed universitieswere not only sources of truth, but places where truth could be tested. It upended the very idea that prisoners might have any rights. It has intimidated and bought the politicians. Finally, but not finally, its actions in Gaza these months have made the impact, the very notion, not to mention the illegality, of genocide irrelevant.
All these insults to civilization have been underway as year-by-year Israel has crushed Gaza and expanded its domination not only by land confiscations and home demolitions, but morally, diplomatically and through cunning trade treaties. While military and embargo atrocities inside Gaza have consumed the world and precipitated unprecedented legal action and public opprobrium, Israel has been at this for decades, threatening, intimidating, coercing, imprisoning, destroying, expelling, maiming and killing: all while step-by-step acquiring diplomatic credits and while building a weapons and security industry that finds a growing global market for its high-tech spying and killing machines.
Last week, because the ‘officially’ recognized death toll of Gazans reached a snug round figure– although someanalysts estimate Gazans killed are at least five timesthis conservative figure – American mainstream media offered a token recognition of the human suffering resulting from Israel’s ongoing war there. Otherwise, the daily – yes, it is essentially a regular ‘event’ – the slaughter is barely recorded. Not to mention the unmeasurable toll of those wounded earlier, the traumatized, the abandoned, those ill from normal disease and disabilities, and the growing numbers attacked by new diseases caused by weakness and lack of hygiene and clean water.
Source: Global Research
