Crowds waiting for food, empty pots in hand. Children missing an arm, a leg, sometimes both. Emergency workers killed and buried in a mass grave beside their crushed ambulances.
Palestinians gunned down at aid distribution sites. Families facing mass displacement from Gaza City. Journalists like Anas al-Sharif assassinated for bearing witness.
As many have pointed out, these are not scenes of death. They are scenes of elimination – the systematic destruction of life through relentless bombing, starvation, thirst, life-altering injury, untreated illness, trauma, exhaustion, and the deprivation of shelter from cold, floods, and heat.
In the occupied West Bank, Palestinians have also faced deadly Israeli raids and settler attacks, with hundreds killed since the Gaza war began.
Such genocidal killing is made possible by decades of western dehumanisation of Palestinians, reducing them to “terrorists” and “human animals“.
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