Israeli forces have been conducting ground incursions and airstrikes into northern Gaza for 13 consecutive days, focusing most heavily on Jabalia, Beit Hanoun, and Beit Lahiya.  They concentrate on the Jabalia refugee camp, where Israel has not only heightened military strikes but cut off all humanitarian aid.  The hospitals in the area are ordered to evacuate, but the staff stays behind, disregarding the occupation, despite fuel shortages that have crippled emergency services.  Meanwhile, the people of these areas are starved under Israel’s relentless siege.

Humanitarian agencies, such as Oxfam and 37 others, have condemned the Israeli tactics, agreeing in effect that the Palestinians are indeed being allowed to starve.  There have been recent reports in the Israeli media about a strategy devised by former General Giora Eiland aimed at pushing Palestinians out of northern Gaza through the exertion of military pressure and expulsion of resources.

This, in effect, is part of a broader strategy to clear the northern Gaza Strip of its Palestinian residents and annex the area under the guise of creating a military buffer zone.  Construction of the Netzarim Corridor—a heavily fortified area—would effectively separate and isolate displaced Palestinians in the south from their homes in the north, which are being systematically destroyed by Israeli forces.

Israel has insisted it allowed up to 50 trucks carrying supplies into northern Gaza, but, in reality, the country continues to dispute those claims, with on-the-ground aid agencies declaring the assertions false.  The humanitarian crisis, however, continues to deteriorate as shortages of food, medicine, and fuel bring hospitals to the brink of disaster.

This bleak scenario is unfolding before the eyes of the world, and condemnation from international leaders has not translated into practical action.  If nothing is done to stop Israel from laying its siege to and ethnically cleansing Palestinians, Gaza may be worse for its greatest humanitarian disaster in history.

The world cannot claim ignorance.  It is the first genocide happening in real-time on social media, and each act of destruction is being broadcast live.  Israel’s occupation forces play a very cruel and calculated game, looking to displace the remaining residents of Jabalia and northern Gaza under the watchful eye of an international community that looks on with passivity.  Nobody knows when it might get worse if nothing changes in a hurry.

The world community, in particular the United States, must shatter their relentless support for everything Israel does.  Otherwise, if nothing is done here, this will most certainly be the darkest chapter in the history of humanity, and the world will merely watch.  At the same time, it unfolds without taking any decisive action to stop it.

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