Eight babies in Gaza froze to death this month ahead of the announced cease-fire. Meanwhile, in Washington, DC, in one of Joe Biden’s final acts as president, his administration asked Congress to authorize another $8 billion in weapons to Israel (coming on top of the $17.9 billion Biden has given Israel since October 7, 2023).
Biden spent the majority of his life trying to fulfill his dream of becoming president of the United States. He succeeded. As he exits the office, his hands are drenched in blood. From his key role in leading the United States to war on Iraq in 2003 to his loyal support of Israel’s genocide, Joe Biden will be remembered by hundreds of millions around the world for the mass murder hidden behind the sterile diplomatic jargon of his administration.
It’s been fifteen months since Israel’s onslaught on Gaza began. The Gaza Health Ministry has reported that at least 46,006 Palestinians have been killed during the ongoing aerial and land invasion of the small strip of land roughly the size of Philadelphia. The number killed is likely a drastic underestimate. A Lancet study released earlier this month estimates that the number of deaths has been underreported by around 41 percent. According to the United Nations (UN), Israel has destroyed nine out of every ten homes in Gaza, and at least 92 percent of all roads have been destroyed or damaged. This has left over 1.9 million Palestinians in Gaza displaced, most living in makeshift tents, which are routinely bombed by Israel. In one such bombing, Israel targeted a tent hospital in Deir al-Balah where dozens of Palestinians were being treated. Two days before his twentieth birthday, Shaban al-Dalou was one of four patients burned alive as he was being treated, IV in arm, at al-Aqsa Hospital tent camp.
Nearly nine months before al-Dalou was killed, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) released a statement asserting the plausibility of Israel’s acts in Gaza…
Auteur: Sumaya Awad
