It has been 200 days and 76 years.
That’s 200 days without clean water, food, electricity, life-saving medicines, a bathroom, privacy, or just simply a place of sanctuary that you are able to call home.
That’s 200 days of unbridled mass slaughter, starvation, dehydration, displacement, torture, mass arrests, and 200 days of relentless dehumanisation.
It has been 200 days of genocide, enabled and paid for by Western elites and brutally executed by the coloniser-in-chief, Benjamin Netanyahu.
200 days of genocide in numbers
United Nations human rights chief Volker Turk said a child in Gaza is killed or wounded “every 10 minutes”. A staggering 72% of Israel’s victims have been women and children.
At least 7,000 people are still missing. Israel is using thermobaric bombs to quite literally vapourise Palestinian civilians.
At least 75,000 tonnes of explosives have been dropped on Gaza by Israeli forces. Civilians have been intentionally targeted and Israel wants to build new settlements on the children’s graveyard that is Gaza.
At least 30% of children in Gaza are suffering from acute malnutrition and at least two adults or four children for every 10,000 people are dying every day from outright starvation or a combination of malnutrition and disease.
At least 180 UNRWA staff have been killed by Israel, from October to March, and at least 196 humanitarian aid workers have been killed by the occupation since 7 October.
At least 350 healthcare professionals have been killed since 7 October with at least 520 wounded. Tlaleng Mofokeng, the UN special rapporteur on the right to health, says the numbers were “grossly underreported”.
Israel’s ‘right to self-defence’? Fuck off.
At least 34,262 Palestinians have been killed by the racist colonial state of Israel since 7 October. This is at least 171 humans murdered every single fucking day by a nuclear-armed military that claims to be the most moral in the world whilst in reality they are committing the most heinous of crimes against humanity in our lifetimes.
That’s roughly where we are following 200 days of genocide and ethnic cleansing, yet the deranged extremists in the Knesset want MORE dead children, MORE enforced displacement, and MORE devastation and destruction wreaked upon the innocent Palestinian population.
I hate to say it, but if you are still blaming Hamas for the actions of the Israeli war machine, and if you are still banging on about Israel’s right to “self-defence”, despite the mounting evidence that clearly illustrates the most brutal of genocides, you’re an absolute cunt.
I mean, wouldn’t it be a tad hypocritical to suggest Israel has every right to defend itself, but Palestine doesn’t? An occupied state has every fucking right to fight back and resist, both morally and legally, whether you approve of their methods or not.
Netanyahu: everything is now antisemitic
You might’ve noticed the beautiful chaos that has engulfed campuses across the US as pro-Palestinian student protests spread to universities across the length and breadth of the country.
The protests began at Columbia University in New York City where students set up the Gaza Solidarity Encampment, on 17 April.
Hundreds of anti-genocide, pro-humanity students have been arrested by typically heavy-handed American cops that see any other skin colour than white as a threat to their American ‘values’.
Netanyahu responded to the mass protests by declaring everyone and everything is antisemitic and is reminiscent of what happened at German universities in the 1930’s.
This is the same child killer Netanyahu that has ordered the destruction of every university in Gaza.
The Islamic University of Gaza, Al-Azhar University, Al-Quds Open University, University College of Applied Sciences, University of Palestine, Al-Israa University, University of Gaza, Al-Aqsa University, Palestine Technical College, Palestine College of Nursing, and the College of Applied Sciences have all been bombed by the Tel Aviv terrorists.
Yet this fucking abomination of a failed human wants to clamp down on entirely legitimate protests at universities across the United States?
Harsh? I don’t think so.
This isn’t just a war on Gaza, nor is it a war on the children of Gaza, but it is a full-throttled assault on humanity itself, and this genocide of the Palestinian people would have been impossible without the backing of the Western imperialists.
The despot hijacker of Judaism, Netanyahu, could go to the burning pits of hell and back a million times over and it still wouldn’t even begin to compensate for the devastation he has unleashed upon the Middle East.
Harsh? I don’t fucking think so.
Harsh is telling a civilian population to flee to a safe zone whilst shooting them on their way and bombing them when they arrive.
Harsh is being starved to death when truck upon truck laden with humanitarian aid is just a stone’s throw away from you, but extremist colonial settlers refuse to allow the aid through.
Harsh is being detained by the Israeli military without charge or trial and being physically, sexually and psychologically abused on a daily basis. Torture is rife, dogs are used to bite children. Men, women and children are urinated on by deranged Israeli soldiers.
Harsh is the horrifying discovery of mass graves at Al-Shifa and Nasser hospitals in Gaza.. Hundreds of bodies have been exhumed, some decapitated, many tortured, others missing their limbs or organs. Patients were executed with their hands tied.
Shining a light on power in places of darkness
How on earth are we supposed to co-exist with these fucking barbaric Israeli arseholes? The apocalyptic scenes from Al-Shifa and Nasser hospitals over the past week or so are worse than anything you will ever see in a horror movie.
I’ll finish up this week by mentioning a new report from former US officials and human rights experts expressing ‘grave concerns’ with the Biden administration’s weapons transfers to Israel.
You will do well to find any mention of it through traditional media outlets, but that’s the joy of independent media such as The Canary.
We are happy to shine a light on power in places of darkness. We have no shareholders to satisfy and we never answer to pro-Israel Zionists or the forces of evil that enable them. We don’t do “off-limits”.
The hushed up report, submitted to the US government on 19 April said the authors found:
a clear pattern of violations of international law, failures to apply civilian harm mitigation best practices, and restrictions of humanitarian assistance, by the Government of Israel and the IDF, often utilizing US provided arms.
Remember: Israel submitted a written assurance to the US government back in March saying that it was using American-supplied weapons per international humanitarian law.
76 years of occupation
The panel of experts — whose objective was to inform the US Departments of State and Defence of its findings as they prepare a final assessment for Congress slated for 8 May — said it reviewed thousands of reports of Israeli violations of international law, noting an Israeli strike on 9 October on Jabalia refugee camp that destroyed several multi-story buildings and killed at least 39 people, which the UN said appeared to have no specific military objective.
The damning report goes on to say:
The Task Force concludes that the incidents… are just the most easily identifiable among a clear pattern of violations of international law, failures to apply civilian harm mitigation best practices, and restrictions of humanitarian assistance, by the Government of Israel.
In short, Joe Biden is up to his fucking eyeballs in the blood of the Palestinian people, and the diminished responsibility line just isn’t going to cut it when history passes its judgement on Biden’s complicity in genocide.
The mounting evidence before the Biden administration now pales only in comparison to the humanitarian crisis afflicting Palestinians in Gaza.
It has been 200 days of live-streamed genocide and 76 years of occupation, and the world will never be the same again.
Featured image via Rachael Swindon
