Israeli slaughter of Palestinians, backed by money, and armaments of destruction stamped from the United States, continues unabated. In what is widely recognized as genocide by rights experts and international legal scholars, the carnage has been relentless.
For 18 months, Jewish settlers committed terroristic attacks on Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Life in the Gaza Strip was defined by forced displacement, and deaths by weaponized famine and missiles, killing mostly innocent women and children.
Despite many emergency meetings at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), and a consistent and growing cry of condemnation by justice advocates on the streets of world capitals, Israel maintains its campaign of slaughter and destruction.
In another example of Israel’s brutal savagery, members of the Israeli army fired on Palestinian emergency workers near Rafah, killing 15.
According to the BBC, “Israeli troops fired more than 100 times during an attack in which they killed 15 emergency workers in Gaza, with some shots from as close as 12m (39ft) away, a forensic audio analysis of mobile phone footage commissioned by BBC Verify has found.
“The findings support a claim made by the Palestinian Red Crescent that the workers were ‘targeted from a very close range.’ On April 5, an Israeli army official said aerial footage showed troops opening fire ‘from afar.’ The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) declined to comment on the analysis directly when approached by BBC Verify,” reported bbc.com.
According to several media accounts, the Israeli army originally stated the emergency workers were approaching in a suspicious manner, a claim that was eventually debunked based on video from a film by a medic who was killed in the attack.
There have also been increasing attacks by illegal Israeli settlers in the West Bank against Palestinians. According to Al Jazeera, there have been 1,800 attacks since October 7, 2023.
And the recent killing of a teenager in the West Bank by Israeli soldiers has sparked outrage.
“The family of 14-year-old Amir Rabee said he was picking olives with two friends, also U.S. citizens, on Sunday (April 6) when Israeli forces fired at them,” NPR reported. Amir was an American citizen who was born and raised in New Jersey until his family moved back to Palestine, NPR reported. Israeli troops accuse Amir of throwing rocks.
“He was all naked, all blood everywhere,” Mohammed Rabee, the teen’s father said, according to npr.org. Mr. Rabee said he wants answers from the Israeli government. Even if his son did something wrong, he is underage, the grief-stricken father said, noted NPR. “How could the soldiers shoot him down with multiple bullets?” Mr. Rabee said.
What must be underscored is that there are nefarious reasons behind the nonstop aggression, voices of justice and warning have pointed out. The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, National Representative of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam gave the warning from Allah (God) concerning the situation in Gaza and the Middle East.
“Prime Minister (Benjamin) Netanyahu has a vision of Eretz Israel. Several states over there, including Saudi Arabia, Jordan, they intend to annex that to what is called ‘Greater Israel,’” said Minister Farrakhan, in a message entitled “What Does Allah, The Great Mahdi And The Great Messiah Have To Say About The War In The Middle East?” delivered on Feb. 25, 2024.
“Do you know about that? That man already has over 400 nuclear bombs sitting in the desert in Dimona, Israel,” Minister Farrakhan continued, referring to Mr. Netanyahu. “That’s a lot of weapons. And they, now, feel that they are the power in the Middle East, and they are,” he said.
Furthermore, Minister Farrakhan warned that Israel wants the land for its gas reserves and to build a major canal there.
The warfare, by Final Call presstime had slain more than had slain more than 62,614 Palestinians according to Al Jazeera’s live tracker which gets figures from the Palestinian Health Ministry.
The retaliation began October 7, 2023, with Hamas-led resistance against the illegal Israeli settlements, killing 1,139 and taking 251 captives, but the history is much longer. The bloodshed is the fruit of 77 years of Israeli occupation and usurping land.
In a telephone interview with The Final Call, Wafic Faour, a Palestinian refugee and organizer with Vermont Coalition for Palestinian Liberation, said “it is genocide” because this is the last thing Israel can do.
“They think killing more, they will empty the place more or the Palestinians will do exactly what happened 76 years ago,” he said, referring to the Nakba (catastrophe), when 700,000 Palestinians were forcibly removed from their lands. Israelis killed his grandfather, and his parents were exiled from Galilee.
“So, the ethnic cleansing happened,” Mr. Faour explained. “They did it again (in) 1967. They thought this time they’re going to do it,” he said, “But if you notice, this time the Palestinians are fighting,” he added.
Another point Mr. Faour shared on why the Israeli atrocities are so extreme is the attitude that Palestinians are not a people. It’s “dehumanize your enemy before you finish them,” said Mr. Faour. “That’s what they did to the Indigenous people in this country—they called them savages.
That’s how they kill Black and Brown people—they labeled them as thugs … and now they deport … arrest and kill migrants because they are smugglers,” he said. “They label them … make them less than a human,” he argued.
In recent weeks after a failed multi-phase ceasefire signed in January collapsed, Israel intensified military attacks and doubled down on blocking humanitarian aid into the besieged Gaza Strip. According to PressTV.ir, the Palestinian Ministry of Health warned that at least 60,000 children suffer from severe malnourishment and related health complications.
A joint statement signed on April 7 by top UN officials told the story of Israel weaponizing starvation. “For over a month, no commercial or humanitarian supplies have entered Gaza,” said the statement.
More than 2.1 million people are trapped, bombed and starved again, while, at crossing points, food, medicine, fuel and shelter supplies are piling up, and vital equipment is stuck. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are forced to flee again, with no safe place to go.
“No one is safe,” read the statement. “With the tightened Israeli blockade on Gaza now in its second month, we appeal to world leaders to act—firmly, urgently and decisively—to ensure the basic principles of international humanitarian law are upheld,” said the UN officials.
Over 1,000 children have reportedly been killed or injured in just the first week after the breakdown of the ceasefire, the highest one-week death toll among children in Gaza in the past year, according to the UN.
“Nothing justifies the killing of children,” Philippe Lazzarini, chief of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), posted on X on April 5. “This is a stain on our common humanity,” he lamented.
The UN Security Council has adopted several resolutions addressing the conflict in Gaza, calling for ceasefires and unhindered movement of humanitarian assistance, which were ignored, said rights activists.
As Israel continues war on Palestinians in the name of warring to destroy Hamas, the U.S. as Israel’s chief benefactor continues unwavering support. In a second visit to the White House within two months, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with President Donald Trump on the issues of Israeli hostages still held in Gaza.
Simultaneously, as Israeli bombs decimated buildings and Palestinians, both President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu restated their plans for removing Palestinians from Gaza into other countries, which rights experts argue is ethnic cleansing and forced displacement, which is a war crime by international law.
In a statement afterward about his White House meeting, Mr. Netanyahu stated they are “currently in contact” with countries considering taking in Gazans. “This is important because in the end, this is what needs to happen,” said Mr. Netanyahu.
However, the two leaders’ optimism comes while Israel is a waning issue in the eyes of Americans, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey. The survey found that fewer people see the Israel-Hamas war as important to them personally or to U.S. national interests—compared to early last year.
In addition, the public’s views of Israel have turned more negative over the past three years. In an analysis of their findings, Pew said 53% of U.S. adults surveyed now express an unfavorable opinion of Israel, up from 42% in March 2022 when Pew last surveyed the question, and before the Hamas-led resistance of Oct. 7, 2023, and Israel’s invasion of the Gaza Strip.
With Mr. Netanyahu’s adamant desire to push Palestinians out and with the incessant bombing after the broken ceasefire, the gates of horror have reopened.
“Gaza is a killing field, and civilians are in an endless death loop,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told reporters on April 8.
Minister Farrakhan, during his Feb. 25, 2024, message warned, that the God of Justice is displeased by the injustice perpetrated by Israel.
“Israel is in a bad condition right now with God. And He showed me in the night what He hated about Israel,” said Minister Farrakhan. “Who gives you the right to take your life and make your life valuable and diminish the value of the lives of others?” he asked.
“Every human being has value. And the value of every human being is what God has put within them when He made them after His own image and likeness. So, as they were minimizing Palestinian life, in the night He was showing me: ‘With every life that they take, that they have diminished, they have diminished the value of their lives in My (Allah’s) Sight.’ ”
“So, Netanyahu is a devalued human being. A great man, but he’s lost his value in the eyesight of God,” Minister Farrakhan warned. Final Call Staff contributed to this report.
