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Sun 10 Aug 2025 9:17 am - Jerusalem Time

Turning Gaza Strip into a Nazi concentration camp

Sari Al-Qudwa

Sari Al-Qudwa

Opinion Writer

The extremist occupation government is escalating its policies of genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza, especially in light of the U.S. administration's ongoing complicity in confronting Israeli atrocities while ceasefire talks continue without any progress. Orders for displacement are still being issued by the occupying authority, and the international humanitarian response in Gaza remains inactive, alongside direct attacks, such as the recent deadly airstrike on the Palestinian Red Crescent Society. This occurs at a time when the residents of Gaza, particularly children, are dying en masse from hunger, alongside a lack of access to food, water, healthcare, and shelter. What is referred to as humanitarian truces and air drops is insufficient to address a crisis of this magnitude, and humanitarian aid must be allowed to enter without restrictions or interruptions. 

The occupation government is working to exterminate the Palestinian people in Gaza by all possible means. Israeli forces have slaughtered more than a thousand Palestinians while they stood in line for humanitarian aid amid the continued imposition of illegal Israeli restrictions on humanitarian assistance after creating harsh living conditions for the residents of Gaza, leading to their physical and moral destruction. What the occupation government and its military authority are practicing is punishable under international law as genocide, just as is the case with mass killings and extermination against the Palestinian people. 

Seventy percent of the killings have occurred in sites established by the so-called "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation," supported by the United States and Israel. These deaths add to more than 59,000 Palestinians killed and 140,000 injured during the ongoing genocide and daily slaughter in Gaza. Displacement orders have confined all surviving residents to only 12% of the area of the Gaza Strip, and the Israeli proposals to forcibly relocate the residents of Gaza to what is called a "humanitarian city" on the border with Egypt can only be seen as an attempt to create a detention camp under miserable conditions that ultimately force the residents of Gaza to leave their homeland. 

The international community must act swiftly and take long-awaited measures to protect the Palestinian people and hold the occupation accountable in light of the escalating ongoing Israeli genocide crimes and the complicity of some Western countries that shield the occupation from the political and diplomatic consequences of its actions, choosing instead to suppress the freedom of expression of their citizens who oppose these horrific crimes while continuing to supply the Israeli military occupation with weapons, trade, and economic aid. 

Unfortunately, international institutions, including the United Nations, continue to fail the Palestinian people. The UN has yet to refer to the situation in Gaza as genocide, despite overwhelming evidence of Israel committing numerous acts prohibited under the Genocide Convention and public statements from the occupation leadership calling for the continued starvation of Gaza. 

The countries of the world and the international community must take firmer and bolder stances, impose deterrent sanctions on colonial terrorist elements, and exert real pressure on the occupying state to punish, dismantle, and dry up its funding sources and lift its protection. 

It is important to note that peace will not be achieved through Netanyahu and his government and the occupation of the Gaza Strip. True peace begins with ending the Israeli occupation of the land of the State of Palestine, dismantling all settlements, and establishing an independent Palestinian state with its capital in Jerusalem. International law must be respected, neutrality towards the occupying state must be maintained, and compliance with international legitimacy that affirms the Palestinian people's right to freedom and liberation from occupation and the establishment of their independent Palestinian state with its capital in Jerusalem, away from occupation and settlement, is essential.

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