Since the war in the Gaza Strip erupted, Israeli occupation forces have killed at least 36,224 Palestinians and injured at least 81,777 others, the vast majority being children, women, and elderly individuals trapped in their destroyed homes.
According to Palestinian health authorities in Gaza, the occupation forces committed five massacres in a single day, killing 53 civilians and wounding 357 others in the past 24 hours. Due to ongoing bombardments, many victims remain under the rubble or on the streets, as the occupation forces have been preventing ambulance and civil defense crews from reaching them.
A recent airstrike on a tent camp in Rafah killed at least 45 people, including parents, children, young adults, middle-aged singles, and the elderly. They died from fire and shrapnel while screaming for help, but bystanders were helpless and unable to douse the flames engulfing the tents because they had no water.
On the 237th consecutive day of aggression on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, the occupation forces continue extreme and unprecedented attacks from air, land, and sea, killing and injuring tens of thousands of Palestinians. They are cutting off supplies of food, water, medicine, and fuel, causing a humanitarian catastrophe with countless casualties and massive destruction of vital infrastructure in Gaza. The residents of Gaza have been displaced from their homes multiple times, seeking shelter in designated humanitarian zones that are poorly defined, confusingly located, and unfit for habitation.
The ongoing situation in Gaza raises questions about the role of the international community, which is supposed to safeguard law and order to maintain global peace and stability. The international community seems to have failed in this regard, with some countries supporting the commission of crimes and massacres, while others issue condemnations without taking action to stop the genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people.
The crimes in Gaza over the past seven months and the global silence are changing perceptions of international humanitarian law and global institutions meant to protect humanity regardless of location, ethnicity, faith, or colour. These principles now appear to be mere slogans, as the current situation reveals them as tools of authoritarianism used by the world order to pursue colonial agendas over Third World countries and their rulers.
Live images from Gaza challenge the credibility of the so-called international community and the rules and regulations established after the Second World War. The Israeli occupation does not care about the calls of the world and does not see international courts and its laws as deterrent tools that prevent it from committing genocides, and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people. How can Israel care when the great powers that protect the existing world order provide full protection undermining global humanitarian laws?
