Israel is Genociding Gaza. It’s far worse than anything I saw during two brutal Israeli wars on Gaza

🚨⚠️Israeli tanks are 20 meters away from Al-Quds Hospital.
Direct shooting at the hospital, creating a state of extreme panic and fear among 14000 displaced people. #Gaza#AlQudsHospital #NotATarget pic.twitter.com/iRZggCcIkP

— PRCS (@PalestineRCS) November 11, 2023

Over one month into Israel’s ongoing genocide of Gaza, the massacres of Palestinians are so frequent, widespread and endless, it is a scale of horror that even I—having experienced two horrific Israeli wars on Gaza—cannot comprehend.

Reports state that Israel has dropped an astounding 24,000 tons of explosives on the Gaza Strip, noting that is the size of two of the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima.

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— Eva Karene Bartlett (@EvaKBartlett) November 2, 2023

To give just one example of Israel’s massacres of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, in it’s fourth week of murdering Palestinians, Israelis warplanes dropped what were said to be six one ton bombs on the densely-inhabited Jabaliya refugee camp north of Gaza City, killing and injuring over 400 Palestinians (as of first estimates).

BREAKING: JABALIA CAMP MASSACRE – 500 KILLED AND INJURED

GENOCIDE pic.twitter.com/SVBkz30oSP

— Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman) October 31, 2023

An entire residential neighbourhood in #Jabalya camp was struck with six #Israeli missiles, totally demolishing between 30-40 residential units.
People searching for loved ones & the dead under the rubble. Numbers of those killed & injured will run in the 100s. #Gaza… https://t.co/m7B7vsMikr pic.twitter.com/8UIFuTA1xj

— Hala Jaber (@HalaJaber) October 31, 2023

The following day, Israeli warplanes bombed the same area anew, reportedly firing eight more missiles on the ravaged neighbourhood.

Today, Israel dropped six bombs, each weighing one ton, levelling an entire neighbourhood in Jabalia refugee camp, Gaza. pic.twitter.com/kkTrHHD7tX

— MintPress News (@MintPressNews) October 31, 2023

As of November 10, Israel has murdered over 11, 000 Palestinians in Gaza, and injured over 27,000, after over 35 days of relentless Israeli airstrikes on a literally imprisoned population who cannot flee by air, land or water. Keep in mind doctors are reporting they are treating severe burns and skin melting injuries that they have not seen before, making it difficult to deal with.

Still thousands more are likely dead under the rubble.

Of those killed, roughly 4,500 are children, on average Israel is killing one child every 10 minutes. According to Save The Children, October 29, more children have been killed by Israeli bombings of Gaza in three weeks than, “the number killed in armed conflict globally – across more than 20 countries – over the course of a whole year, for the last three years.”

This is a staggering statement which—if the endless images of lifeless Palestinian children being pulled out of rubble or wrapped in white shrouds doesn’t already shock you—should shock the general public.

Due to the over sixteen year long Israeli siege on Gaza, there has consistently been a dearth of the most basic necessities of life, and in particular essential medicines. When I drafted this article, that dearth was so severe that even anaesthesia is lacking, meaning children and adults alike who are fortunate enough to get medical care now at all are often being operated on without anaesthesia.

Now, the scant numbers of hospitals that were still somewhat functioning have shut down or are being bombarded.

🚨⚠️Al_Quds Hospital is at risk of closure in the upcoming 3 hours due to the depletion of fuel supplies and the non-arrival of aid.
500 patients and injured will be deprived from medical care. Those who are at the ICU and babies in incubators will lose their lives.… pic.twitter.com/IUGuNg6DBi

— PRCS (@PalestineRCS) November 10, 2023

Reflections from two prior Israeli massacres of Gaza

I watch from afar in horror at Israel’s ongoing massacre, one which surpasses the 2009 and the 2012 Israeli wars on Gaza combined, the bloody results of both of which I documented from on the ground.

It is difficult to understand the layers of terror experienced during an Israeli bombardment campaign. In addition to the bombing itself, there is the sense of isolation, not being able to call for help if needed, not knowing if friends and family are still alive, not being able to bury or properly grieve for those who have been killed, not knowing what is going on outside of your district, not knowing when the horror will end nor when the next nearby bombing will occur.

In its December 2009-January 2009 war on Gaza, which killed over 1400 Palestinians, most of whom civilians, Israel first attacked by dropping 100 bombs simultaneously in the first minutes. In Gaza City, I went to one of the sites bombed in that first wave of attack, a mosque and police station, seeing the chaos of people scrambling to remove rubble and pull out bodies, also seeing a new missile hit roughly 150 metres away.

Massive plumes of black smoke rose everywhere around me. The main hospital, Shifa, was nonstop receiving the dead and the injured. The ICU beds were filled and doctors told me as soon as one patient died another took the place.