Healthcare facilities burn, food and water are blocked and drones shoot their fleeing targets. Yet we cannot say we were not warned, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
Healthcare facilities burn, food and water are blocked and drones shoot their fleeing targets. Yet we cannot say we were not warnedhe killing fields of northern Gaza speak of a crime that was confessed to long ago. The Israeli state is creating “a lifeless desert” and an “unliveable wasteland”,Médecins Sans Frontières, “effectively emptying out the whole north of the Strip of Palestinian life”.
but that this was a “necessary condition” in an “existential war, and we are facing a situation of either us or them”. Less than three weeks later, newborn babies did indeed begin to die as Israel cut off fuel from the nowtalk of “the ‘poor’ women of Gaza”, on the grounds “they are all the mothers, sisters or wives of Hamas murderers”, and urged Israel to embrace the spread of epidemics because it “will bring victory closer and reduce casualties among IDF soldiers”.
More recently, Eiland cooked up what is called the “generals’ plan”, in which Israel orders civilians to leave an entirely besieged northern Gaza and declares it a closed military zone, with those remaining deemed legitimate targets. Eiland has stuck stubbornly to his script,: “It doesn’t necessarily mean that we’re going to kill every person. It will not be necessary. People will not be able to live there. The water will dry up.
Every day, the ever-shrinking surviving band of Palestinian journalists document obscene atrocities, while Israeli soldiers post them on social media for public amusement.
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