The food, land, and water crisis in the context of the Zionist extermination of the Palestinian people in Gaza.
The goal of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, which began in 1948, was not only to replace the population with colonists brought from different parts of the world; it was an exhaustive settler colonialism, with the Israelis controlling the natural resources of land and water from the beginning of the Occupation. They established Zionist colonies on the ruins of displaced Palestinians’ villages and controlled the land and water so that they could provide sustainability for the Zionist imperial project.
US and Western presidents have stated several times that if there had not been an “Israel,” they would have created it, as the Zionist entity constitutes a tool for the imperialist powers—led by the United States of America and the European countries—in the heart of the Arab world, and an obstacle to its unity and progress in terms of its national and regional concerns and social justice for its peoples.
The Gaza Strip has been a Palestinian model of struggle and challenge since British colonialism and the subsequent Israeli occupation, and successive attempts have been made to suppress its forces fighting against injustice, racism, and the depletion of natural resources. Gaza has witnessed several wars that have led to the deaths of tens of thousands of Palestinians, mostly women and children—a fact that has been met with complete silence on the part of the Arab, Islamic and international communities.
During these wars the Occupation has not been condemned or placed on global blacklists of countries organizing and sponsoring terrorism, nor even have sanctions—especially economic and military—been imposed on it, which could have limited the effectiveness of its killing machine.
Since October 8, 2023, the Zionist entity has attacked the Gaza Strip, a small geographical area that does not exceed 365 square kilometres and which is the most densely populated area in the world, with the number of Palestinians totalling 2.3 million, including about one million children.
This bloody war, which international experts have described as being characterized by war crimes and crimes against humanity, is a war of ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people as a whole. On the very first day of this war the Occupation’s Minister of Defence, Yoav Gallant, announced that water, food, electricity, and fuel would be cut off from the entire Gaza Strip. This amounts to collective punishment, which is also considered a war crime…
-Moayyad Ahmad
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