Source: TomDispatch
by Ellen Cantarow
“Words can’t express the horrors of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. To actually feel the nightmare, you would have to be there under the bombs, fleeing with Palestinians desperately seeking a safe place that doesn’t exist; seeing building after building destroyed; treading through blood in one of the few, only partially standing hospitals; and witnessing children and other patients sprawled on hospital floors, limbs amputated without anesthesia (Israel having blocked all medical supplies). It has taken the Jewish state’s savagery to break decades of silence about its history of crimes against humanity. U.S. military historian Robert Pape has called the onslaught against Gaza ‘one of the most intense civilian punishment campaigns in history.’ Former U.N. Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Andrew Gilmour has said that we are witnessing ‘probably the highest kill rate of any military … since the Rwandan genocide of 1994.'” (04/15/24)