From past few decades we’ve seen that the mass destruction and genocide of innocent Palestinians committed by the Israeli military forces has been termed as conflict. Since the very beginning of the Zionist movement, the German government officially encouraged the immigration of the Jews out of their state by sending them to Africa, Palestine and other states that accepted the German Jew immigrants in their states.
However, there were so few of them. It was said that Adolf Hitler blamed Jews for their defeat in World War I. When the Nazi Party took power in Germany in 1933 its anti-Semitic racism became their official government policy. From 1933 till 1942 Jews continued to leave Germany as they were forced to and approximately six million European Jews were murdered in the direction of Nazis during World War II when Germans conquered most of Europe. That genocide was later known as the Holocaust.
Many of the Jews came to seek refuge in Palestine. But soon the immigration of Jews in Palestine started to take a turn that resulted in the occupation of Palestine, the formation of Israel on occupied Palestine, With Jews claiming their own state on the land of Palestine, killing innocent people, bombing houses and building, depriving people of basic humanitarian needs.
Seventy-five years of oppression, brutality, genocide and violence against the Palestinians have still not been enough for the United Nations to impose sanctions, to take action on the extreme violation of basic human rights. How easy it is for the Western media to censor, shadow-ban and ban all the accounts that are posting and tweeting the real image of Gaza on every social media platform right now. Israel continuously receives military aid and Palestinians are even deprived of the most basic human needs.
Whereas when we talk about the support that Palestinians should receive from Muslim countries we see Muslim nations busy in their own games of interest. Making their foreign policies a priority instead of helping their religious brother. These powerful Gulf states are still not powerful enough to make only one bottle of water to reach the people of Palestine, they are still not powerful enough to speak in any international organization for the rights of innocent Muslims being slaughtered mercilessly all around the world.
The European Union’s spokesperson recently held a press conference on the ongoing situation in Palestine, saying that Israel’s cutting off water, food, electricity and Internet in Palestine is Israel’s right to defend itself in the war. How can an occupier call itself a defender?
It is Israel which is bombing Gaza, carrying out non-stop airstrikes, killing thousands of innocent people and children. It is the Israelis who occupied the land of Palestine, forcefully claimed their state on the occupied land, and it is the USA and all the European states supporting and facilitating this genocide. The occupier does not have the right to defend itself, as it is in the international law definition that the occupier itself is in an offensive posture, so the notion of Israel defending itself is as absurd as an oppressor claiming to be oppressed by defenceless and helpless people.
As international media is spreading misinformation, our role becomes even bigger to help the true voice of Palestinians reach everyone! May the Almighty give our Palestinians brothers and sisters more strength to fight and stand for themselves and May He give them victory.
Over 7000 innocent Palestinians have been martyred since October 7. There is no news of ceasefire, the airstrikes in Gaza are destroying homes of thousands of Palestinians. The 20 trucks of humanitarian aid that enter Palestine is just a distraction from Israel’s murderous genocide against the innocent Palestinians. It is a small beginning that is far from enough, hundreds of trucks are waiting for a green light at the Rafah border in Egypt poised to deliver lifesaving aid to 2.3 million besieged people in Gaza strip. Amid continuous airstrikes and bombardment more than 3000 tonnes of aid is waiting. Water continues to be among the most precious commodities, according to UN relief agencies for Palestinians refugees.
The ongoing bombing and airstrikes has displaced one million people, almost half of the population. Israeli occupation forced the evacuation of the people of Gaza for southern areas resulting in many people becoming homeless and continuing to sleep in streets now amid the nonstop bombardment. The evacuation order has put more pressure on an already fragile, overwhelmed and damaged health system, with supplies rapidly depleting across the enclave.
All over the world we are witnessing the biased statements of several countries and they use the most strong and robust language to describe the crimes against humanity of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Ukraine, but they will not use the same strength of language when it comes to describe Israel’s inhumane treatment of Palestinians is an example of on going Western hypocrisy. They will force you to condemn Russia for invading Ukraine but turn a blind eye to Israel occupying and destroying Palestine for 75 years. They condemn the murder of George Floyd as racism against the people of colour but stay ignorant on the murder in America of an innocent six-year-old Palestinian stabbed 26 times. When one side is armed with nuclear weapons it is not a war. When one side is cut off from water, food and electricity it is not war. When one side has billions dollars of military aid it is not war. It is a genocide, a mass destruction, oppression and ethnic cleansing.
Palestine wants us to speak up, we have to speak for our brothers and sister that are fighting for their motherland, for their lives, for their religion, we have to speak up for all those innocent children that were martyred by Israeli occupying forces, for all those mothers who lost their newborn, for all those innocent people who lost their loved ones, their homes, for their right to live a peaceful life as others in this world. How many more lives should be taken so that we will raise our voice? How many more innocent children have to die for the world to wake up?
How we can live our own lives normally turning a blind eye to the genocide in Palestine?It is our duty to speak up, to raise ourselves against this severe violence, to protest, to donate, to pray for them, to help them in every way possible. Your silence isn’t maturity or diplomacy, we should remember that staying silent on a crime is equal to supporting the crime.
As international media is spreading misinformation, our role becomes even bigger to help the true voice of Palestinians reach everyone! May the Almighty give our Palestinians brothers and sisters more strength to fight and stand for themselves and May He give them victory.
