In Gaza, innocent Palestinian men, women, youth and children, their homes and property continue to be bombarded by Israel. Israel's barbaric bombardment continues in Gaza, the Israeli army martyred more than 500 Palestinians in a fresh attack on a hospital. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has announced three days of mourning over the incident. The number of martyrs in the Israeli attacks on Gaza exceeded three and a half thousand. Meanwhile, the Israeli Efforts to forcibly expel Palestinians are tantamount to war with Jordan. According to UN report, Gaza has been reduced to rubble, more than 1 million displaced. Forced eviction of civilians in Gaza has virtually begun, UN says

Martyrs include more than a thousand women, more than 940 children. So far, more than 116 medical centers have been targeted in Israeli attacks, 50,000 pregnant women have also been denied access to hospitals. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, Israeli planes targeted a hospital in central Gaza, in which more than 600 people were injured, the condition of many people is critical and the death toll is expected to increase. Other report says that more than 1,000 Palestinians are buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings. According to a report of the United Nations, the concept of human life is ending here.  About three thousand Palestinians have been martyred. Eleven thousand have been injured and more than one million have become homeless, while 20 lakh are desperate for life and are waiting for some unseen help. The capacity of martyrs in mortuaries and cemeteries is running out.

Food, water, electricity and other necessities of life have become non-existent. Attacks on Israelis by the organization Hamas and Hezbollah in Lebanon are ongoing, but they cannot be compared to the attacks by the Israeli army, equipped with the latest American weapons and other equipment, on Gaza and other Palestinian territories by land, air and sea. The United States continues to deliver military personnel and equipment to Israel. In 10 days, the second US warship will arrive to help the Zionist state.  America's allies and other imperialist powers are also supporting Israel. Apart from the army, Israel has also started arming its own Zionist citizens, which has raised the possibility of mass killing of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.

Iran has described the situation as approaching the inevitable final stage of full-scale war, while the US president, who as the head of a superpower has the greatest responsibility for ensuring world peace, has continued to embolden Israel. And he himself is going to reach Israel in a few days. The US Secretary of State is making a stormy visit to some Arab countries and is unsuccessfully trying to persuade them to oppose Hamas by telling them stories of Israel's "oppression".  As a result of his diplomacy, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said that Hamas does not represent the Palestinians, but has not explained why, if so, why Israel and its imperialist backers are after Palestinian lives, some analysts say.  Demonstrations in favor of Palestinians against Israeli brutality and American imperialism are taking place around the world. But they fall on the deaf ears of the claimants of peace and justice. The verbal sympathies of the Islamic countries are with the Palestinians, but their hands are tied behind the expedients to stop the atrocities against them.  Egypt has refused to allow the opening of the Rafah border for the delivery of foreign aid to the Palestinians. There is no serious campaign for ceasefire at the international level. Israel has banned its military commanders from even using the word "ceasefire".  The Israeli Defense Minister has admitted that the war will be long and that both sides will have to pay a heavy price. Russian President Vladimir Putin has contacted the presidents of Egypt and Syria and shared his "sympathies" with them. 

The World Health Organization has expressed particular concern over the situation in Gaza, where the death toll is deepening as food, fuel, water and electricity are limited to 24 hours and Israel has refused to restore supplies.  Today, a huge human tragedy is taking place on this land, which the whole world should play its role to prevent, otherwise everyone will have to suffer from the coming disaster.

As a matter of fact, the humanitarian crisis arising in Palestine requires the immediate attention of the entire international community because the situation is worsening moment by moment.  Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Representative in Palestine, Israeli soldiers have reached the occupied territories of Palestine. Before we have no way back, the United Nations and its members must immediately mediate a ceasefire. According to Albanese  more than 423,000 Palestinians have been displaced by Israeli operations. It has previously been the victim of five major wars since 2008 and the reason for this is the illegal closure of the roads by Israel since 2007, which was strongly condemned by the international community as collective punishment.  No place in Gaza is safe for Palestinians. Israel has occupied the entire territory, and water, food, fuel, electricity are also illegally cut off in a short strip, only the Rafah border was partially open, that too was closed after being damaged by Israeli attacks and the ongoing onslaught.  Moreover Albanese says that Israeli government officials are openly promoting another Nakba, the term used for the events that occurred between 1947 and 1949 when more than 750,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes and country. And Israel came into being as a result. Francesca Albanese is an Italian lawyer and intellectual woman, so the details of the Israeli aggression described by her cannot be considered as a biased statement of a Palestinian representative.  The statement states that life has been made difficult for the people of Gaza to such an extent that they have no choice but to fight for peace. Therefore, the international community should stop the war through immediate mediation and give them the right to live with dignity on a permanent basis. On the other hand, Hamas and the entire Palestinian leadership, despite sticking to the principled position that international powers have illegally occupied the Palestinian land and established a cross-racial state, have accepted the two-states formula as a practical solution.  But during the last several years, not only the international community, but also the Arab countries themselves, have seen an acceleration in the process of recognizing Israel and establishing diplomatic and economic relations with it, even between the Saudi government and Israel, a significant progress has also been made in reconciliation.

In this context, the opinion is not unfounded that without the implementation of the diplomatic solution, the leadership of Hamas would have taken the risk of severe countermeasures to stop the Arab countries from establishing diplomatic relations with Israel and to draw the world's attention to the Palestinian issue again.

Some strategic experts say that they Planned a three-pronged attack against Israel, the result of which has come out that the Arab leadership and world powers are once again emphasizing on a diplomatic solution. The governments of China and Russia have made it clear that there is no other viable solution to the Palestinian conflict.

Published in The Daily National Courier, October, 20 2023

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