Israeli attacks on Gaza’s healthcare sector are a form of genocide
People wait outside Gaza City’s Al-Quds Hospital on 29 October 2023 as the war between Israel and Hamas enters its fourth week.
Neta Golan writes in Mondoweiss:
Rav Segal, a holocaust scholar at Stockton University, says that what is happening in Gaza is “a textbook case of genocide. Israel has been explicit about what it’s carrying out in Gaza. Why isn’t the world listening?”
Jewish Israelis like myself who oppose genocide watched in horror as Israel declared war against Palestinians.
We watched Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett say in a BBC interview, “A home, a school, a hospital that hosts terrorists it is not a home, is not a school and is not a hospital,” announcing to the world that civilian targets would not be spared.
The next day, on October 9, Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said, “We are putting Gaza under a complete siege: no electricity, no food, no water, no fuel. Everything closed. We are fighting human animals, and are behaving accordingly.” Even Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) is ashamed of such talk, as the visibility of Gallant’s tweet has been limited on the page as “ This Post may violate X’s rules against Hateful Conduct.”
The UN Security Council has repeatedly condemned the use of starvation of civilians as a method of warfare, citing its prohibition under international humanitarian and criminal law.
In response, our group of over one thousand Jewish Israelis sent letters to diplomats in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, pleading with them to pressure Israel to stop its brutal bombing of Palestinians in Gaza. “We fear that in the coming hours, Gaza’s hospitals will turn into graveyards,” we warned. “With fuel reserves for electricity generators all used up, there will be no more power for operating rooms, vital monitors, ventilators, ICU drips, newborn incubators, or even lights.”