War on Gaza leaves 'Israel', US politically isolated
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Through Monday night and into Tuesday, "Israel" launched continuous attacks across Gaza, killing over 50 civilians, including children.
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A protester makes hand prints on the wall of Union Station building during a pro-Palestinian demonstration asking for a ceasefire in Gaza in Washington, Friday, Nov. 17, 2023. (AP)
"Israel" launched a series of strikes across Gaza on Monday night into Tuesday morning, in an assault that could prolong the war for weeks or months according to officials, despite the global calls for a ceasefire that ultimately isolated the occupation and its warmonger mother, the United States.
Strikes targeting Rafah, which killed at least 23 Palestinians at once, were in an area the Israeli military had told displaced Palestinians to shelter in. Among the martyrs were 7 children and 6 women, reports from the hospital where bodies and injuries were transported to and an Associated Press reporter said.
One Israeli strike targeted four residential buildings in Rafah, killing Issam Harb's three children; his twin daughters and their younger brother. The family had been sharing their home with nine other displaced Palestinians.
In central Gaza, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital received the bodies of 33 Palestinians, including 16 women and four children, who were killed by targeted Israeli strikes on buildings in al-Maghazi Refugee Camp.
In northern Gaza, the Israeli military raided the Kamal Adwan Hospital, forcing all males into the hospital square, according to the Minister of Health, Ashraf al-Qudra. Medics were also included in the round-up. They were later forced to strip naked and were beaten up, while the IOF justified their violation as "detaining" Hamas fighters.
The Israeli occupation conducted an abduction campaign for #Palestinian men in #UN shelters, the men were stripped in the streets in the cold, and these men were taken to unknown locations.
— Al Mayadeen English (@MayadeenEnglish) December 7, 2023
The Chairman of the EuroMed Human Rights Monitor Rami Abdu also reported mass… pic.twitter.com/6aiXOktCtY
The hospital shelters over 3,000 displaced Palestinians and has admitted 65 patients into its care, including 12 children with intensive care needs and six incubated newborns, according to the UN humanitarian office.
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Doctors Without Borders also reported that the Israeli military shot and wounded a Palestinian doctor at another hospital in northern Gaza, which has been completely besieged by Israeli forces.
After "Israel's" destructive militarized genocide in Gaza, the civilian death toll has surpassed 18,000 martyrs, almost 50,000 Palestinians have been injured, and 1.9 million Palestinians out of 2.3 million have been displaced.
In the past few hours, the Israeli occupation has committed 19 massacres in residential neighborhoods and shelters all over the Strip, the #Gazan Ministry of Health announced.#GazaUnderAttack #Palestine pic.twitter.com/kYI8ogptfB
— Al Mayadeen English (@MayadeenEnglish) December 11, 2023
"Israel" took no responsibility for the deliberate targeting and kidnapping of civilians and blamed Hamas for their deaths instead.
US vetoes UN resolution for a ceasefire
Global calls for a ceasefire have taken over the world, with Arab states and the UN leading the movement. The United States on Friday vetoed a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, "diplomatically" shielding its ally.
The US deputy representative at the UN, Robert Wood, said the resolution was "divorced from reality" and "would have not moved the needle forward on the ground."
In defense of its destructive veto, the US, backed by its colonial ally, claimed that a ceasefire would allow Hamas to regroup and regain power. "While the United States strongly supports the durable peace, in which both Israelis and Palestinians can live in peace and security, we do not support calls for an immediate ceasefire," said Deputy US Ambassador Robert Wood.
Wood added, "This would only plant the seeds for the next war because Hamas has no desire to see a durable peace to see a two-state solution."
Read more: White House interns denounce Gaza genocide, demand ceasefire in letter
US & 'Israel' might be out of touch with the reality of Hamas
Israeli Security Minister Yoav Gallant, said to AP in a statement on Monday, that the war on Gaza cannot be halted until "Israel" destroys Hamas.
However, numerous experts view "Israel's" objectives as impractical, highlighting Hamas' significant support base among Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. The International Crisis Group, a think tank, emphasized in a recent report that even neutralizing Hamas' military capability would be challenging without causing extensive damage to what remains of Gaza. The report called for an immediate ceasefire.
Israeli officials claim to have killed around 7,000 Hamas fighters, approximately one-quarter of the group's estimated fighting force, and detained 500 militants in Gaza over the past month. However, these figures are unverified. Hamas asserts that it still has thousands of reserve fighters.
"The total eradication of Hamas" is the goal of the ongoing genocide being perpetrated by "Israel" and funded by the US in the Gaza Strip, however, this goal "may be based on an understanding of the organization that does not take account of its current reality," explained a newly published report by Foreign Affairs.
According to Foreign Affairs, "Not only has it [Hamas] managed to maintain itself; it has also asserted its autonomy from the organization’s outside leadership as well as its Arab allies and Iran, which was not warned of the attack."
Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, which was conducted on October 7, has repositioned the Gaza Strip as a "key piece of the Palestinian liberation struggle and of bringing that struggle to the center of international attention," noted the report.
Furthermore, the Foreign Affairs statement emphasized that, by reasserting its role in the struggle for Palestinian liberation, Hamas challenged the previous understanding held by the United States and "Israel". This understanding considered Gaza as an isolated enclave with a sustainable status quo, not only indefinitely but also as separate from the rest of Palestine.
