Sunday, January 14: 100 Days of Genocide
Another day of action by the people and another day of inaction by their leaders
Yesterday, tens of thousands of demonstrators descended upon our nation’s capital once again to call for an immediate ceasefire and an end to the Israeli genocide in Gaza. The largest anti-war movement in decades continues to be ignored by most western media outlets, but that hasn’t stopped people from making their voices heard. The protests weren’t limited to Washington DC, which was just part of the global day of action against the longest and deadliest military campaign between Israel and Palestinians in 75 years.
Looking at the numbers, it’s clear that what’s happened over the past three months is horrific and historic. This “by the numbers” breakdown illustrates that approximately a quarter of Gaza’s population (576,600 people) is currently facing “catastrophic hunger and starvation”, and about two-thirds of the 23,843 Palestinians killed during Israel’s rampage through Gaza have been women and children, according to the Gazan Health Ministry. While the other ~8,000 dead Palestinians are often listed as “militants”, it’s safe to say the vast majority of them were simply adult Palestinian men, assumed to be evil and killed without remorse.
Beyond the human atrocities, nearly 200 historically important sites in Gaza have also been destroyed or damaged in Israeli airstrikes in the past 100 days. The 1954 Hague Convention, signed by both Palestinians and Israelis, is meant to safeguard these cultural landmarks from the horrors of war. But these Israeli war crimes are simply part of the ‘collateral damage’ of genocide. Meanwhile, the unapologetic prime minister of the apartheid state continues to make claims that nothing and no one, not even The Hague, will get in the way of destroying Gaza.
Side Items
Murderous Border Patrol: A woman and her two small children drowned this weekend trying to cross the Rio Grande into Texas as the state’s inhumane leadership denied federal agents access to the stretch of the border where they needed help. A South Texas congressman, Henry Cuellar, said that state officials denied federal officers access to the river to help the dying family. It sounds horrific, because it is, and yet it’s just another day at our southern border
Missing Navy Seals: Two members of the Navy SEALs are missing after a mishap a few days ago as they were attempting to board a ship off the coast of Somalia. The navy claims the incident is unrelated to the recent airstrikes against Yemen, but this sort of thing brings us all one step closer to a wider-reaching and increasingly devastating military engagement