Israel's Mass Murder Has Become Worse Than Ever and the World Does Absolutely Nothing

In Gaza today, we do not just witness the death of Palestinians. We witness the death humanity.

A 13-year-old Palestinian girl. According to UN reports, Gazan girls suffer “triply” as they are subjected to the most horrific forms of systematic sexual abuse by Israeli military forces.

The scenes unfolding in Gaza today are beyond the vocabulary of moral outrage. They demand a language that has not yet been invented to describe the systematic extermination of an entire people as we watch in real time, our collective conscience numbed by the normalization of the worst barbarism humanity is capable of.

In Gaza, we are witnessing unadulterated mass murder in its purest form—the deliberate, calculated annihilation of human beings whose only crime is their existence. Drone strikes hunt children riding bicycles. "Suicide drones" target tent encampments housing the already displaced. A five-year-old girl, her childhood violently severed, runs in blind panic with her jaw blown away, embodying in one small broken body the obscenity of this genocide. Tents—mere fabric shelters of the most desperate—are deliberately set ablaze. This is not war. This is not self-defense. This is the methodical eradication of a people.

For nearly two months, not a morsel of food has entered Gaza. Not a single dose of medicine. Not a drop of fuel. The most powerful nation on earth, the United States, continues to supply Israel with an unending stream of sophisticated weaponry specifically designed to light children on fire, to bomb tents, to pulverize what little remains of civilian infrastructure.

While I expect nothing from the psychopathic colonial West, I am deeply disturbed by the lack of resolve of other great powers. China and Russia, who position themselves as counterweights to Western hegemony and champions of sovereignty, offer nothing but hollow proclamations and symbolic gestures while Palestinian children burn. These supposed alternative powers—with their UN vetoes, their economic might, their military arsenals—reveal themselves as mere spectators to genocide. "Pathetic" is the only word that can fittingly describe these so-called "super powers," whose moral cowardice stands in stark contrast to their grandiose rhetoric of global justice and multipolar resistance.

Annihilating Palestinian Existence

The great lie of our age is that the Palestinian's surrender would end this slaughter. Seventy-six years of Palestinian history reveals this as the most lethal of falsehoods. Netanyahu, at the zenith of his political career, thrives in the blood of Palestinian children, fulfilling what has always been his agenda: the annihilation of Palestinian existence itself.

The world's attention has already moved on. The cameras have turned away precisely as the killing intensifies. The media has abandoned Gaza at the exact moment when the genocide has accelerated to its most horrific phase. The systematic starvation of two million people proceeds alongside the bombs and bullets, creating a symphony of death that plays to empty theaters.

When the Palestinian resistance offered terms for a long-term truce—a hudna of five to seven years—and the immediate release of all Israeli captives, Israel's response was telling. They did not just reject peace; they intensified the very conditions that make peace impossible. They placed demands they knew could never be accepted, using the charade of negotiation as cover for continued extermination.

Meanwhile, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas, with single-digit approval ratings, performs the role assigned to him by his Israeli masters—condemning resistance while collaborating with occupation. His life's work now stands as testament to the futility of capitulation, having gained nothing for his people but expanded settlements, fragmented territory, and endless humiliation.

The truth remains buried beneath the rubble: When Palestinian protesters gathered peacefully during the Great March of Return in 2018, Israeli snipers held competitions to see who could maim the most unarmed demonstrators. The world's response then, as now, was a collective shrug.

Death

What grows in the aftermath of such trauma? An entire generation of Palestinian children now thinks constantly of death. Twenty thousand orphans wander through the wasteland that was once their home. These children have witnessed their families obliterated by American bombs, their futures canceled by deliberate policy. They have also seen the resistance fight back against impossible odds.

Israel's demand for total disarmament is not just about ending current resistance—it is about ensuring future generations remain permanently enslaved and vulnerable to extermination. It is about denying Palestinians even the basic human right to defend themselves against their own eradication.

As this genocide unfolds with American complicity, we bear witness to the moral collapse of the institutions that were meant to prevent such atrocities. The International Criminal Court issues indictments with no teeth. The United Nations passes resolutions that change nothing on the ground. And Western powers continue to fund and arm the slaughter while mouthing empty platitudes about peace.

This is not just Israel's crime. It is our crime. Every bomb dropped, every child incinerated, every tent set ablaze is done in our name, with our tacit approval, through our elected representatives, with our tax money.

The most damning indictment of our civilization is not that such atrocities can happen—history is littered with genocides—but that they can happen while being livestreamed in 4K, and the world simply continues turning, unmoved and unmovable.

In Gaza today, we do not just witness the death of Palestinians. We witness the death of our shared humanity.

- Karim

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