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Mon 27 Oct 2025 5:09 am - Jerusalem Time

After 75 years: The occupation is still unable to protect itself.

When animosity becomes entrenched in a person or entity, human values fade away, and the worth of a human being is belittled. What is happening in the occupied territories is a testament to that.

The occupier does not merely starve people but also exerts efforts to prevent others from providing support and obstructs relief efforts as much as possible.

As soon as famine struck the Gaza Strip, some international relief organizations rushed to provide some support, in accordance with international humanitarian law and the Geneva Conventions that regulate the conduct of wars.

The occupying government fabricated fictitious issues to obstruct aid and issued accusations last year against UNRWA, claiming that some of its employees belong to Palestinian resistance movements.

The International Court of Justice examined those accusations carefully and in detail, and its staff and legal experts made efforts to uncover the truth behind those claims.

In the end, the court reached significant conclusions, the most important of which was the absence of any evidence that UNRWA violated the principle of neutrality or practiced discrimination in the distribution of aid.

Nevertheless, it is not expected that "Israel" will comply with that conclusion, which prevents it from obstructing relief efforts.

It seeks to use food as a weapon in the battle against Gaza and its people after its military machine failed to eliminate the resistance.

It is clear that it is not satisfied with turning the region into rubble and destruction unseen since World War II; it also seeks to ensure absolute dominance by breaking the will of those who insist on rejecting and resisting the occupation.

After the crisis of food and medicine worsened, the task of addressing it became an international responsibility that compels the United Nations and the Security Council to take measures to prevent catastrophe.

This requires the United States to comply with this mission instead of pouring oil on the fire and increasing its military and financial aid to "Israel."

Last week, the U.S. State Department stated in an official statement that the court's decision unfairly criticizes Israel and grants UNRWA full freedom to continue its "close relationship with the terrorism" practiced by Hamas and to provide material support to it.

What more does "Israel" want from this statement to tighten the restrictions it imposes on relief organizations?

When will Donald Trump act as a president who protects America's interests and not "Israel's"?

When images of the suffering of the people of Gaza appear on television screens, and the effects of famine are visible on the bodies of its children, feelings of respect for those responsible for that fade away.

This contradicts the simplest humanitarian principles that stir the desire to aid the distressed and feed the hungry.

What about the humanity of this planet, whose feelings fade away so that scenes of the hungry, the sick, and those living in the open do not move it?

No atrocity remains uncommitted by the Israelis against the people of Gaza, to the point that more than two million people live in the open, seeking shade from the sun and sleeping on the ground, after the occupation turned their homes into heaps of rubble.

The occupiers did not stop there; they imposed a comprehensive blockade on land, sea, and air, so that no one can break the abhorrent iron curtain.

When the consciences of people from all corners of the earth stirred and organized relief convoys by sea, the Israeli navy was waiting to confiscate their boats, arrest those on board, and mistreat them.

This happened not in secret but in front of television cameras live.

Thus, the Israeli aggression this time has become one of the most documented and clear historical events.

Despite this, many hearts remain hardened, having been tainted by vile actions.

There are clear contradictions in international positions regarding the suffering of the people of Gaza.

It seems that those closest to them are less concerned than foreigners, which calls for an objective reading of many meanings and concepts related to brotherhood, relief, assistance, and the feeling of others' suffering, as well as the responsible stance towards the oppressed.

There are humanitarian and Islamic concepts related to issues of hunger, relief, and defending the oppressed, which should push many to hasten to fulfill their moral and humanitarian duties and abandon selfish inclinations.

If that were to happen, the occupation would not be able to continue its attempts to break the will of the steadfast.

It uses starvation as an effective weapon in what it considers a "existential war," and its continuation for more than three-quarters of a century means its inability to persist in military repression alone.

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