Call for Immediate Ceasefire in Gaza Now

As of this morning, at least 2,200 Israelis and Palestinians have been killed and many thousands wounded.  Usually, when a war breaks out in Israel/Palestine, the United States quickly calls for restraint. But yesterday when Biden spoke, instead of calling for a ceasefire, he pledged U.S. involvement in Israel's pursuit of revenge and intention (already underway) to commit war crimes.The first shipment of U.S. weapons and the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world's largest warship, have already entered the fight. Biden and Congress are planning to provide additional funding for Israel's military.  

I'm absolutely astonished at the number of people who don't know that Israel has been occupying Palestine since 1948 in breach of international law. An average of 10,000 Palestinians are killed or injured by Israel every year, including hundreds of children, and what's becoming abundantly clear is a huge section of the western world not only supports this, but wants more bloodshed.

It's truly chilling. All violence is  abohrent. so is apartheid. Gaza’s 2+ million population are mostly children, who live under blockade in what Israel’s own former intelligence chief has called an open air prison. The overwhelming majority live in poverty. Many suffer lifelong psychological and physical trauma. Egypt has closed its border crossing with Gaza, Palestine. Israel has closed its border crossing with Gaza, Water turned off and today the Gaza Energy Authority announced that it  had run out of fuel. Gaza's sole power plant will stop working at 2pm local time. Soon all services vital for the survival of the population, including hospitals, will no longer function. Hamas is not the people of Palestine. Real people are living this. It's utterly heartbreaking.

Whatever is left of their hospital system is about to collapse entirely. With over a 1000 dead (hundreds being children), the wounded now have no treatment and aid has been shut off from all directions. Without electricity, the few voices from the ground will also disappear. What little remains of the now cut off water supply will dry up.

The power crisis is unfolding against a backdrop of escalated military actions, with both sides suffering casualties.The residents of Gaza are finding themselves amidst a worsening humanitarian situation, with the electricity cut-off adding to the difficulties .

The situation in Palestine-Israel is growing more and more dangerous, with total casualties now in the thousands. The situation is now so dire that some are warning of potential genocide in Gaza.

International agencies and humanitarian groups are calling for the restoration of electricity and the establishment of aid corridors to ensure the delivery of essential supplies and services. The situation highlights the complexities and the ripple effects of the ongoing conflict on basic amenities like power.  As the hostilities continue, the power cut-off in Gaza stands as a stark reminder of the far-reaching implications of military confrontations. The current scenario underlines the necessity for de-escalation and dialogue to address the humanitarian challenges and work towards a sustainable resolution of the conflict.

Violence leads to violence. Hamas’s attack was appalling, but so is the daily violence of Israeli apartheid. Israeli forces are carrying out relentless attacks reducing entire neighborhoods to rubble.at least 950 people have been killed, many more are trapped under the rubble. As the death toll mounts, we  must urge Israeli forces to make every effort to spare civilian lives. 

The brutality of Israel’s response is already clear and  now despairingly Keir Starmer is cheering on the cutting off of food, electricity, water and medical aid to Gaza. Intentionally starving civilians as a method of warfare by depriving them of objects indispensable to survival, such as drinking water. 

Under 4th Geneva Convention collective punishment is a war crime. 1,000,000 children in Gaza. Indiscriminate bombing and starving Palestinians of food, water and electricity is collective punishment. 

But instead of condemning these war crimes, Western politicians are cheering them on. It should not be controversial to oppose the killing of both Palestinian and Israeli children. It should not be controversial to oppose war crimes.No government should be endorsed to deliver collective punishment to innocents and cut off power and water to hospitals.  You can't utter these words and then call for international law to be maintained in the same sentence. It's unethical, immoral and disgusting.

Should Starmer as a former human rights lawyer. simply not be  horrified by the appalling toll of civilian deaths in  the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel and be calling for a ceasefire an an end of all hostilities, the protection of civilians, and a just resolution in accordance with international law!

There is no military solution to this conflict. No amount of bombing, no ground invasion, no height of collective punishment, will make anyone safer anywhere between the river and the sea.

Gaza, an open-air prison, under blockade and siege for 16 years, is at a breaking point. Medical personnel and aid workers are facing huge barriers to delivering desperately needed supplies to the over two million who are trapped there. We need a humanitarian corridor into Gaza to protect civilian lives.  Palestinians have the right to live in dignity and peace, the right to movement, and as refugees, the right of return.

The Israel-Palestine issue is not complicated; an apartheid regime abuses and oppresses an indigenous ethnic group who don't have the same rights as others. The only reason anyone thinks it's complicated is because they assume if it were simple, the news would've told them so.

The Palestinian flag by the way is a symbol of struggle, suffering and survival against tyranny. It is a symbol of hope for a better future, one of freedom and peace.Waving that is a statement of solidarity.

We should all mourn the hundreds of people killed across Israel and Palestine over the past few days and we need a concerted effort for peace and justice in the region.We need urgent de-escalation, an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the establishment of a dialogue to restore the historical rights of the Palestinian people and negotiation towards a free Palestine and  to an end of occupation and siege in order to end this tragic cycle of violence and a means in achieving a just and lasting peace.