Thanks to his relentless war against Gaza, Israel killed more than 59,000 Palestinians, injured 143,000 others and pushed hundreds of thousands in forced famine caused by his blockage on the enclave and its militarized distribution system.
More than 100 Palestinians have hung up in recent weeks, including 80 children.
Whatever its ultimate intention, according to analysts, Israel pushed the people of Gaza to the point of rupture.
“Israeli policy has left Gaza uninhabitable,” said Derek Summerfield, a psychiatrist based in the United Kingdom who wrote on the effects of war and atrocity.
“He destroyed the idea of a society and each institution that could serve it, from universities to hospitals, including mosques. It has become a socio-poop war,” he added, describing a conflict intended to destroy the entire structures and the feeling of identity of a society. “People have been nothing with anything and feel that they cannot continue.”
The constant spectrum of death and the complete devastation of Gaza led many Palestinians to despair. Some are trying to leave – even temporarily – due to the horrors they have known and a conflict that can continue for months or years to come.
Others continue to hang on to their homes in defiance of climbing Israeli aggression.
Famine in Gaza
The mass famine whose aid agencies have warned have become a reality for the Palestinians in Gaza, while workers aide and journalists join the ranks of hungry and malnutrists.
On Wednesday, more than 100 aid agencies published an open letter urging the Israeli government to work with the United Nations and to allow assistance to Gaza.
Tel Aviv Tribune called for an action to protect all journalists trapped in Gaza, many of whom are no longer able to present themselves because of their acute hunger and health deterioration. The AFP agency made a similar call.
“Famine is not only physical, it’s mental,” said Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation at Tofts University, who wrote a lot about famine.
“He dehumanizes and degrades the victim … This is the experience of – and then the memory of – after having sought through garbage for food and everything you have done to survive.”
“You have to remember, famine is an act, and as often as not criminal,” he continued.
“He is also the one who takes time. It’s not like dropping a bomb … Famine can take 60 to 80 days. Semi-starvation, as we see in Gaza, can take longer.
“Israel has had many warnings and striking that its actions lead to mass famine. It shouldn’t surprise anyone. “
“These are not only a question of hungry children. It is a question of dismantling a society and reducing its inhabitants to desperate and hungry victims,” added Waal. “It also encourages the attacker to consider the victim as dehumanized, which becomes self-adjusting.”
An annihilation strategy
During his 21 -month war, the leaders of Israel said on several occasions that their war against Gaza was to “defeat Hamas” and save the captives detained in the territory.
However, with each new offensive, his criticisms in the world have accused him of looking at the humanitarian consequences of his actions or actively seeking to punish the Palestinians and to make them famine.
“I don’t know if you can call it a strategy,” Yossi Mekelberg, principal researcher at Chatham House, said.
“I do not know how expected, how tactical, cynical, opportunistic or simply incompetence. It all depends on where you look. “
Mekelberg has broken down the factions in competition for final policy in Israeli policy, messianic ambitions of the ministers of ultra-nationalist government, such as Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, who would like to see the Palestinians of Gaza and the West Bank who was expelled, to a security establishment that Mekelberg described had to continue or finish the war.
“Finally, you have the cynical and the opportunist,” he continued, “who is mainly Benjamin Netanyahu and his members. For them, it is politics and surviving for another day,” said Mekelberg about the Prime Minister, who is judged on multiple accusations of corruption.
The inheritance of destruction
The consequences of Israel’s actions in Gaza will last generations, analysts said.
Those who survive the current war of Israel will carry its scars, just like their descendants, while those who leave are unlikely to return.
“Israel has adopted a formula in the past few weeks when it makes the conditions for Gaza intolerable and unable to support human life,” said Mouin Rabbani, co-publisher of Jadaliyya.
“If this can reduce life to such a level and at the same time increase the level of chaos and anarchy (through Gaza), thought is that people will leave.”
Once they have been forced from their homeland, either under the conditions that Israel has imposed, or by the one -way entry into what the ministers of the Israeli government call a “humanitarian city”, while many criticisms call it a concentration camp, it intends to build along the border with Egypt, they will not be authorized, said Rabbani.
Barely a day has passed since the assault of Israel against Gaza began in October 2023 than his war did not dominate the headlines.
In recent weeks, such as famine and the extent of the almost total destruction that Israel has visited on the enclave has increased, the same goes for concern among the international community.
However, in the face of demonstrations, and with ceasefire negotiations supposedly supposed, the War of Israel has shown few signs of slowdown.
This left the Gaza population, in the words of Summerfield, to “wander Gaza;” hungry, alone and hunted ”.