Under the World’s Criminal Silence, and the Death Trap Aid, Gaza Strip turning into Graveyard; Enough is enough!

Under the World’s Criminal Silence, and the Death Trap Aid, Gaza Strip turning into Graveyard; Enough is enough!

By; Dr. Mohammad Ajmal
Assistant Professor; School of Languages, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi

The ongoing Israeli bombing in Gaza and the obstacles to humanitarian aid have turned the Gaza strip into a graveyard for children and those dying of hunger. The statement made by the head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, that “Gaza has become a graveyard for children and starving people before our very eyes” is a tragic reality of the atrocities in Gaza that reflects the indifference of the entire world. According to UN figures, more than 1400 Palestinians, the majority of whom are children and women, were killed near aid centers alone from May to early July. More than 45 Palestinians were killed in just one day, including 11 people who were standing in line for food aid. This situation becomes even more worrying when it becomes apparent that controversial aid agencies like the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which were established with the support of the US and Israel, are themselves the targets of these attacks or that Palestinians are being deliberately targeted around them. The targeting of unarmed Palestinians by Israeli forces and US contractors affiliated with the GHF is a stain on the human conscience. This is not just an attack on civilians, but part of a deliberate “social-demographic engineering”.

According to experts, the “city” being prepared in Rafah is actually a modern-day ethnic cleansing camp where an attempt is being made to forcibly relocate Palestinians and erase their geographical identity. This entire plan is not limited to land grabbing or displacement of Palestinians, but is a manifestation of a large-scale pogrom. When starving children, women queuing for aid, and innocent people sleeping in shelters are deliberately targeted, it is not just war crimes but ethnic cleansing. The airstrike on a school in Jabalia that saw a little girl beheaded is an unimaginable form of this horror. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) representative has admitted that they have enough food in Gaza to feed the entire population for two months, but Israel is not allowing their trucks to enter. Not only that, but the lack of fuel in hospitals has stopped essential treatments like dialysis, ambulances are stranded, and the injured are being brought to hospitals on donkeys. This is not just a tragic situation for the Palestinians, but also a lament for the helplessness of international institutions and the decline of the global conscience.

Humanity in the Gaza Strip is facing a tragedy where every passing day is creating a new story of more martyrdom and killing, hunger and helplessness. This is not just a conflict in a particular region, but a slap in the face of humanity on a daily basis. The figures of death tolls are changing every moment. Human lives are ending with a sigh on a daily basis, which describes the severity of the ongoing oppression in this region. The condition of hospitals is extremely deplorable, especially Al-Aqsa Hospital, where the emergency rooms are full of severely malnourished children and patients. Their eyes are sunken and their bodies are extremely weak. Medical staff are working with very limited resources, hunger is everywhere. Due to the siege, the human body is not getting food in this modern era. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 10,000 people in Gaza urgently need medical assistance abroad, but Israel is not only hindering their safe evacuation, but is also severely restricting the delivery of essential medical supplies to hospitals, while medical centers are also being targeted. According reports, before US President Donald Trump was re-elected, many countries were willing to accept patients from Gaza, but Israel did not allow the majority to leave Gaza. But after Trump’s re-election and his plans for genocide in Gaza, many countries began to avoid accepting medical patients. This political situation forced even those countries that were previously willing to accept patients.

The silence and indifference of the international community is extremely regrettable. The United Nations and other international organizations are limited to issuing statements, while the ground realities are that the worst human rights violations are continuing in Gaza. International laws and the principles of humanitarianism are being violated, and the powerful countries of the world are turning a blind eye to this atrocity for their own political interests. This silence is not only an injustice to the oppressed, but also a threat to world peace and humanity. Muslim countries, which calls itself a supporter of the oppressed, has become a picture of helplessness. No concrete and collective action is being seen from Muslim countries, which can provide real relief to the people of Gaza. It is time for the Muslim Ummah to forget its differences, form a united front, and take practical steps for the oppressed people of Gaza. Mere condemnation is not enough, but diplomatic, economic and political pressure must be used to stop Israel from these barbaric acts. The oppression in Gaza is not just a Palestinian issue, but a concern for all of humanity.

666 days have passed since the Israeli aggression on Gaza. The game of fire and iron that Israel started in the name of self-defense is still ongoing. On the one hand, the negotiation table is set, while on the other hand, fire is rained down on innocent people. As a result of the Israeli aggression, sixty thousand five hundred people have been killed and 142,000 people have been injured in Gaza so far, while the entire Gaza Strip has been reduced to a pile of rubble. In the latest phase of the Israeli military operation that began in March 2025, 8,938 people have been killed and 34,228 people have been injured. Gaza, with a population of 2.2 million, is presenting a scene of hell. Humanity is dying due to successive Israeli bombings, economic blockades, lack of medical aid, and the criminal silence of the international community. The Israeli air force is bombing refugee camps. Direct shooting at unarmed Palestinians waiting for aid has become the new normal for the Israeli Terrorist Forces.

According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, the hospital system has been completely destroyed. Five newborn babies are being kept in a single incubator. 70 percent of medicines have run out. Hospital emergency wards are full of hungry and half-dead patients. Every third person in Gaza has been deprived of food for several days. People are losing their lives due to lack of help. So far, 100 infants have died of malnutrition, while 200,000 children are suffering from severe malnutrition and the situation is getting worse day by day. According to the BBC report, Israeli snipers are deliberately targeting aid recipients. According to a British doctor, children are being targeted in Gaza as a game, and different parts of the body are being targeted on different days of the week. The Secretary-General of the International Committee of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Society, Jagan Chapin, has warned that the Palestinian people are on the brink of famine. The head of the Norwegian Refugee Council, Jan Egeland, rejected the positive progress of the European Union representative, saying that not a single aid truck has been able to enter for 142 days. The UN aid agency has said that it has enough food for the entire population of Gaza, which is stopped at the Egyptian border. Israel should open the gates, end the siege and let us work. On the other hand, the UN, the Red Cross and relief agencies say that more than 6,000 aid trucks are stopped at the border.

UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher appealed to the Security Council that Israel has imposed restrictions on the supply of food and medicine. Starving civilians is a war crime, and aid should be allowed to enter Gaza. Meanwhile, the official media office of Gaza called on the international community to immediately establish humanitarian corridors, immediately lift the siege, keep aid free from politics, and bring Israel to the International Court of Justice for crimes against humanity. The situation in Gaza today is a matter of concern for the civilized world. Despite the loud claims of humanity and human rights, the situation that the defenseless people of Gaza are facing is completely contrary to basic human rights. Despite the existence of international principles and laws of peace and war, the way the international community and the United Nations are silent can only be attributed to Muslim hostility. The international community, especially Muslim rulers, should wake up from their slumber and go beyond verbal praise and take practical steps against Israeli aggression.

Negotiations are underway under the auspices of Qatar, Egypt and the US in the name of a ceasefire to give the people of Gaza a generous 60 days to rebuild their lives and stop the genocide. If there is something ahead and behind the negotiations, it is an attempt to eliminate Hamas, which Netanyahu is presenting as the conditions for the ceasefire. First: Hamas must completely surrender, second: Hamas must give up its rule of Gaza, and third, Hamas must eliminate its military capabilities.

If these conditions are not met within 60 days, Israel will be free to complete the small gap left in the genocide of the people of Gaza, with the support of the Western world. Hamas has expressed its willingness to release 10 Israeli prisoners, but it rejects any agreement under which Israel’s military presence in Gaza remains. Hamas has also demanded the unhindered provision of humanitarian aid and guarantees of permanent peace. Such demands from Hamas are part of the negotiation process; otherwise it knows that making such demands is futile, especially from those who are its sworn enemies, who enjoy breaking mountains of injustice against the Palestinians.

In the days that these negotiations are ongoing, Israeli attacks and shelling on Gaza have intensified, and tanks are also moving forward. Whenever there is talk of peace talks or a ceasefire, the Israeli army increases crimes and genocide on Gaza.

The Jewish state is also using humanitarian aid for the people of Gaza from a military perspective and is using aid as a weapon for murder, starvation and genocide. The partial permission for aid to the Gaza Strip by Israel was also approved in order to reduce the international public anger and intense pressure against the atrocities committed against the defenseless people, women, children and the elderly, and at the same time to use it as a weapon by making it part of its war strategy. Israel initially justified it by saying that it could not allow Hamas to take over aid activities. Not only that, but it also targeted international and regional organizations that provide humanitarian services, such as the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees. What we are seeing at the so-called aid centers of the GHF established by Israel and the US has also been described by the United Nations as a “death trap”.

According to the report of the official media office of Gaza, four such documentary evidences have emerged so far in which the narcotic drug “Oxycodone” was found inside the bags of flour received from the American aid center. This proves that Israel is using aid from a military perspective as well as a criminal tool. It is trying to make aid a means through which it can establish new institutions and authorities in Gaza and keep the aid process in its hands in the future.

Israel is also trying to incite unrest, internal division, sedition and corruption in Gaza through the process of distributing aid, as has been revealed through the groups that steal aid. The most prominent of which is Yasser Abu Shabab, who is the leader of a gang of bandits in the eastern area of Rafah, which is under the control of the Jewish army. Israel is also using aid to change the distribution and arrangement of the population. Several areas of Gaza have been evacuated by mobilizing people around aid centers, such as the central Gaza area known as the Netzarim corridor. The same effort has been made in the southern Rafah area, where the US aid distribution center is located.

The Western media puts the number of Palestinians killed in the attacks by the Jewish forces at 57,000, including 12,000 children. This is a huge lie that only the Western media can write on the pages of history. Unbiased researchers put this number much higher. An Israeli cabinet member has mentioned the deaths of 1.8 million people in Gaza, while the total population of Gaza is estimated to be around 2.2 million. Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s basic infrastructure – water, electricity, sewage systems, schools, hospitals, and about 80 percent of homes – is not simply aimed at ‘eliminating Hamas’, as the Israelis claim, but rather an attempt to cover up a more sinister agenda under which they are making Gaza uninhabitable.

Since the beginning of the attacks on Gaza, the primary goal of the Jewish state has been to empty Gaza of its inhabitants and force its people to leave. Israel is not alone in this diabolical plan; it has the political and material backing of the US and Europe. All Muslim governments, especially the countries bordering Gaza, are involved in the implementation of this plan. The statements issued by these rulers in which they claim to reject the expulsion of the people of Gaza are mere deception and lies that are only for the media and are given to mislead public opinion. The fact is that the winds of oppression that are blowing in Gaza and the scenes of apocalyptic destruction that are taking place are the fruit of the political maneuvers of these Muslim rulers who, in collaboration with the occupying Jewish entity, are using them to forcibly expel the people of Gaza. On the one hand, they are selling hope in statements and on the other hand, they are spreading destruction together with the Jewish entity.

Israel has neither abandoned its agenda of genocide nor does it intend to. Israel is not letting any opportunity pass when it is not implementing its plan to expel the people of Gaza. The determination seen in Trump’s plan to disarm Gaza, which he is presenting as a so-called solution and repeating it at every opportunity, includes the consent of many Muslim political and military leaders. The message to the people of Gaza from the rulers of Israel, America, Europe and most Muslim countries is that “there is no place for you here. Either die or get out from here.” This brutal policy has been in place for more than twenty two months. The genocide, killing, siege, starvation, deprivation of education and the destruction of every hope of life of the people of Gaza is the strategy of this evil criminal Jewish entity and it will never stop until the Palestinians intensify their resistance.

As such, France has announced to accept Palestine as an Independent state while UK and Germany have followed suit, nevertheless  conditional, The US and Israel have agreed to allow entry of relief vehicles to the Gaza strip, the practice has begun though, amidst Steve Vettkof’s visit to Israel to observe relief distribution process, reports arrived from the distribution centers. The Israeli army’s brutal attacks in Gaza continue, with the number of killings exceeding 101 in the last 24 hours. According to international media, the Zionist army bombed schools, hospitals, camps, tents and food distribution centers of homeless Palestinians in Gaza, resulting in the death of at least 101 Palestinians and the injury of 625.

On the basis of foreign media, the Israeli forces continue to attack unarmed civilians who went out in search of food in Gaza, as a result of Israeli bombing and shooting, another 30 Palestinians who went out to get food have been killed. The Gaza Ministry of Health says that 625 wounded people have been transferred to various hospitals in the last 24 hours, where they are being provided with medical assistance. As per the Arab media reports, 7 more Palestinians have died in Gaza due to hunger and malnutrition, thus bringing the total number of those killed as a result of the severe food crisis to 154.It is not aid but the death trap.

Enough is enough, now, it is time for the consciences of the world to awaken and speak out against this oppression. International organizations, governments and human rights organizations must intervene immediately to stop the enduring killings and destruction in Gaza, end the siege and provide immediate medical assistance to the wounded and sick. Humanity is groaning in Gaza and if the world remains silent today, and the international community, the United Nations and the so-called civilized world do not respond immediately and effectively to this genocide, history will place them in the same row as the oppressors who created atrocities like the Holocaust and Srebrenica.