Analysts and observers painted a very bleak picture of the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, and called for the need to quickly save the lives of besieged children and families, and to prosecute Israeli officials for the war of genocide they are committing against the Palestinians.
The Israeli army continues to commit various types of crimes against Palestinian civilians, regardless of international and humanitarian laws, as well as the voices calling for an end to the war. Examples of these crimes include scenes broadcast by Tel Aviv Tribune Today, showing stray dogs eating the bodies of martyrs in the northern regions of the Gaza Strip.
Rosalia Bolin, spokeswoman for UNICEF in Gaza, described the situation in the Palestinian Strip as tragic and unbearable, with a shortage of food, medicine, and a safe place. She confirmed that children suffer from diarrhea and diseases resulting from water pollution and lack of hygiene. She spoke of children sick with chronic diseases. They could have been cured, but lack or lack of medicine led to their death.
Despite the efforts of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to help children and families through psychological and mental support and bringing nutritional supplements and cleaning materials, they cannot meet all needs, and Pauline says that the Gazans need humanitarian aid more, and the private sector must deliver fruits. And vegetables and dairy products to save the lives of Palestinian children and families.
According to the Secretary-General of the Palestinian National Initiative, Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, the people of Gaza are exposed to four types of Israeli crime: a war of killing, a war of starvation, a biological war, and a chemical war. He considered – in his speech as part of the analytical pause “The Course of Events” – that the brutal crime committed by Israel will go down in history as the most brutal crime in human history, “worse than the Holocaust.”
Al-Barghouti referred to the thousands of martyrs who were left in the streets without allowing ambulances to reach them, and in this context, he narrated the story of a family from Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, who had refused to leave their home for 14 months, but were recently forced to leave it, because of the sight of their neighbors whose house was bombed and who continued to appeal. Rescued them from under the rubble, and no one could approach them due to the Israeli bombing, and this led to their death.
Behind the genocide and ethnic cleansing it is practicing in Gaza, Barghouti adds, the Israeli occupation aims to implement its plan that it began on October 8, 2023, which calls for complete ethnic “cleansing” of all of Gaza and pushing the population into the Egyptian Sinai, a plan that failed. Because of Palestinian steadfastness and Egyptian rejection.
Israel is now trying to practice ethnic “cleansing” in large areas in the northern Gaza Strip, removing entire cities such as Jabalia, Beit Lahia, and Beit Hanoun, and completely destroying Palestinian homes, hospitals, health centers, universities, and electricity and water networks, in a malicious plan to make Gaza an unsafe and uninhabitable place. To force the people to leave and emigrate voluntarily.
Barghouti called for the prosecution of Israeli officials who are committing a war of genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinians, and also for the Palestinians to take action to pressure Israel to pay the Palestinians compensation for the destruction it caused to them and their homes.
Lobbying and supporting the criminal court
For his part, Dr. Jeffrey Nice, former prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and professor of international law, acknowledges that what Israel is committing in Gaza is “illegal criminal practices,” but he believes that it is difficult for Israel’s leaders to appear before international courts, because they have strong allies, led by them. United States of America.
However, Jeffrey called on the world to exert continued pressure and support the International Criminal Court, so that the Israelis are finally held accountable, as happened with the late Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic.
What raises the optimism of the international law professor is that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, against whom the International Criminal Court issued two arrest warrants, cannot travel to countries that are signatories to the Rome Statute.