The U.S.-Israeli Genocide of Palestinian People Intensifies... and It's Worse Than You Know
The rulers of the U.S. are trying to paint all pro-Palestinian protest and any questioning of the state of Israel as the same as calling for the genocide of Jewish people. They are doing this to enforce silence about—and distract you from—the REAL genocide going on right before your eyes.
Here is just some of what happened this last week:
** As of December 7, over 17,177 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since Israel started its war on Gaza on October 7. That includes about one out of every 150 children in the Gaza Strip. Thousands more Palestinians in Gaza are missing, buried under the rubble. Hundreds more are being slaughtered by U.S.-supplied Israeli bombs every day.
A Palestinian woman's gestures express her grief after Israel bombed Khan Younis refugee camp, December 7, 2023. Photo: AP
** Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been injured. The few hospitals that have not been destroyed by Israel are at over 200 percent capacity.
Children wounded by Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, in Khan Younis, December 5, 2023. Photo: AP
** In the first month of genocidal bombing of Gaza, Israel dropped more than 25,000 tons of explosives on the Gaza Strip. That is almost double the impact of the atomic bomb that destroyed the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
** Israel has intensified the use of 2,000-pound bombs dropped on desperate, homeless, starving people, in one of the most densely populated spaces on earth. These 2,000-pound bombs can flatten an entire apartment complex, killing everyone in it. On December 6, 22 members of the family of Al Jazeera reporter Moamen Al Sharafi were murdered by a single Israeli bomb.
** Last week, nine out of ten people in Gaza went at least one full day and night without food!1
** On December 7, only 69 trucks carrying humanitarian supplies entered from Egypt into Gaza. This is well below the daily average of 500 truckloads (including fuel) that entered every working day prior to October 7—when conditions weren't anywhere near as desperate.
** According to the UN, nearly 85 percent of the population of Gaza have fled their homes because those homes were either destroyed or in the crosshairs of Israeli attacks.
** After forced evacuations of Northern Gaza, some 1.2 million people are trying to survive in horrifically overcrowded UN facilities across Gaza, overwhelmingly in the southern half of the Gaza Strip. Communicable diseases (diseases that spread easily between people), diarrhea, acute respiratory infections, skin infections and hygiene-related conditions like lice are out of control.
** At least 100 Palestinian males—including children as young as 15, local shopkeepers, a journalist, and others—were detained by Israeli troops in northern Gaza and stripped to their underwear, blindfolded, and made to kneel. Israeli soldiers posted gloating and degrading photos of this scene on social media. Israel has essentially declared that any Palestinian still living in the north—elderly, disabled, sick, or refusing to leave their home—is a suspected Hamas member.
** Having ordered half the population to move from the north to the south of Gaza, Israel has intensified bombing and tank assaults to the south. On December 7, the UN Under-Secretary-General of Humanitarian Affairs stated there was “no place safe for civilians in southern Gaza.”
** Bombs, tanks, and threats have driven desperate displaced Palestinians into and around the city of Rafah near the Egyptian border. There, people are chopping down trees for firewood or scavenging it from bombed out houses to cook and boil drinking water. Relief agencies have run out of tarps so people sleep under whatever debris they can collect. Children beg for food in the streets.
Displaced Palestinians in makeshift tents. Relief agencies have run out of tarps so people sleep under whatever debris they can collect. Photo: AP
To all of you reading this: Are you willing to stop a REAL genocide?
