Today marks 100 days since Israel began its attack on Gaza.
During this period, the death toll among Palestinians living in Gaza rose to nearly 24,000 as Israel dropped more than 65,000 tons of bombs on the besieged enclave and its population of 2.3 millions of inhabitants stuck in less than 400 square kilometers.
The Israeli assault on Gaza began on October 7, in response to an attack by armed fighters from the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, and other Palestinian groups. Some 1,140 people died during the attack and around 240 were taken captive to Gaza.
In retaliation, Israel launched a brutal bombing campaign and intensified the already crushing siege Gaza has suffered since 2007.
“We are fighting human animals,” Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said on October 9, announcing that food, water, fuel, medicine, everything, would not be allowed into Gaza.
Since then, defying condemnations and calls from international organizations and rights groups, Israel has continued an indiscriminate campaign that has sowed terror among Gaza’s population, killed entire generations of families and destroyed vast swaths of land. urban and rural lands.
Israel is now accused by South Africa of having perpetrated the genocide in Gaza before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague in the Netherlands.
Speaking on Saturday, after both sides’ presentations to the ICJ, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that “no one will stop us, not The Hague, not the axis of evil, not anyone else.” Iran and its allied groups.
Alternating between claims that this level of killing and destruction is somehow justified in the name of self-defense and statements that it is doing everything possible to avoid civilian casualties, Israel has often strayed from its statements on the different aspects of this war against Gaza. .