Bulletin No49 aout 2024 A new massacre perpetrated by the Zionist army
On August 10, at least 100 Palestinian civilians, including women and children, were killed early Saturday when Israeli forces targeted a school in Gaza City hosting displaced Palestinians.
Videos show charred bodies and limbs strewn across a concrete floor as people rush to search for loved ones after the attacks, and dozens of bodies covered in cloth and lying in a courtyard.
Victims of the attack were taken to the partially functioning Maamadani hospital, one of the few hospitals operating in the northern Gaza Strip. The hospital did not have enough beds for the wounded and many of them remained in the corridors.
Israel regularly targets places where Palestinians take shelter because their homes have been destroyed by repeated Israeli attacks throughout the Gaza Strip. The Gaza Civil Defense Agency has called the attacks a “horrific massacre.” The Israeli occupation forces continue to commit massacres, with the continued financial and military support of the United States and the West, and the silence of the international community, encouraging Israel to continue committing such crimes against the innocent people of the Gaza Strip.
As usual, the Israeli army declared in a statement that it had targeted a " command and control center " that " served as a hideout for terrorists and Hamas commanders ." This is a simple propaganda reel of the most mendacious and criminal state in the world.
Netanyahu's goal is confirmed: to destroy the Gaza Strip
After destroying almost all of Gaza's hospitals, the Zionist state is organizing the systematic destruction of schools. The goal is clear: to destroy the Gaza Strip, to make it uninhabitable in order to drive out the Palestinian survivors of the genocide.
This is the reality, the Western imperialists are complicit, as are the silent media at their service. It is quite obvious that, without the support and complicity, even the direct involvement, of the West, the colonial state of Israel would not have been able to commit genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinians of Gaza.
UN Special Rapporteur Accuses Israel of Genocide
The UN special rapporteur for the Palestinian territories, Italy's Francesca Albanese, accused Israel of genocide against Palestinians on Saturday, August 10, after the bombing of the Gaza school.
" Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians, one neighborhood at a time, one hospital at a time, one school at a time, one refugee camp at a time, one security zone at a time, after more than ten months of war in the Gaza Strip ," Francesca Albanese said on the social network X.
She added: " Israel uses American and European weapons. […] May the Palestinians forgive us for our collective inability to protect them, respecting the most elementary meaning of international law ."
A Damning Report on Torture by Zionists, Opinion by Gideon Levy
The Israeli NGO B'Tselem published a report the week of August 12, entitled "Welcome to Hell," about what is happening in Israeli prisons, including torture. Haaretz journalist Gideon Levy published an article commenting on the report. His point of view is that the report is not only about what is happening in Israeli prisons, but that it is a report about Israel. " Anyone who wants to know what Israel is should read this report before any other document on Israeli democracy. "
The journalist mentions one of his colleagues from Channel 12 News who extensively documented the gang rape organized by Israeli soldiers that we have already discussed several times. What is most serious is that Channel 12 dared to organize a debate between " who is in favor of rape and who is against it ."
Gideon Levy commented: “ Unfortunately, even Peleg continued to label the victim of the barbaric rape as a terrorist, despite having revealed earlier that the rape victim was not a member of the Nukhba [elite unit of the Ezzedine Al Qassem Brigades (Hamas’s armed wing] or a company commander – he was a simple policeman from the Jabaliya anti-drug unit. So he was taken out from among dozens of detainees who were lying handcuffed on the ground, perhaps at random because he was the last in the row. No violence or riots, as the suspects’ unworthy lawyers tried to make out. ”
All the images and stories of this horrific event should revolt every conscience. Yet, Gideon Levy tells us: "Not the conscience of most Israelis, it turns out. On Tuesday, once again, a High Court of Justice hearing on the request to close the Sde Teiman torture center was interrupted by the shouts of the audience. "The people are sovereign," the mob shouted at the High Court judges. Soon we will see lynchings in city squares, led by the sovereign and supported by the media. On the morning TV shows, there will be discussions about the legitimacy of lynching. There will be a speaker for and a speaker against, in our balanced media. "
And he goes on to mention the Zionist Guantanamo, the infamous prison of Sde Teiman: “ Israel is Sde Teiman, Sde Teiman is Israel. That’s also how they treated people suspected of sexual harassment in the Israeli #MeToo movement, which destroyed the careers and lives of men who were only suspects. But the Sde Teiman rapists? That’s not a problem for #MeToo – the one they raped was a terrorist. ”
What Gideon Levy then denounces is that this torture is not even aimed at obtaining intelligence, like that practiced for a long time by the Shin Bet (counter-espionage service of the Zionist state) [1] : " here, it is only a question of satisfying the darkest and most unhealthy sadistic impulses. Look how calmly the soldiers approach to carry out their malicious intentions. There are also dozens of other soldiers who saw and knew and who remained silent. Apparently, they also participated in similar orgies, according to the dozens of testimonies cited in the B'Tselem report. It is routine. "
The conclusion of the courageous and oh so realistic Haaretz journalist is terrible: "Indifference to all these things defines Israel. Public legitimation defines Israel. In the Guantanamo Bay detention camp opened by the US after the September 11 attacks, nine prisoners were killed in 20 years; here, it is 60 detainees in 10 months. Need we say more? "
The Zionist genocidal state must be banned from the nations
And all this is happening in the general indifference of Western imperialist leaders and the media at their service. Who has heard of this report on continuous news channels in France? From LCI to France Info via BFM and C News , there was no mention of it. And it is the same for the classic channels of the misnamed public service.
The only communiqués from the imperialist powers of the US bloc are to assure that they will defend Israel in the event of a response from the axis of Resistance.
Genocide, torture, and the assassination of opponents are the practices of the Zionist state, covered up to the end by its imperialist master the US and its Western allies.
This impunity must finally end, and these crimes must be prosecuted and punished. The Revolutionary Communist Party hereby reiterates that it demands the severance of diplomatic relations with Israel and economic sanctions, including the boycott of Israeli products and those that trade with the Zionists.
The crisis, in all its forms, in which Israeli society finds itself has no equal for over 75 years. Economic losses estimated at over 50 billion dollars in 10 months of war against Gaza, a crisis of skilled labor to revive the production apparatus and other sectors, particularly military and agricultural, the closure of start-ups and high-tech companies in the North on the border with Lebanon or what is called the Silicon Valley of the Zionist entity and which, by itself, generates billions of dollars per year. Sanctions would force it to stop its genocide, as would the cessation of arms deliveries.
He is also in trouble because he has never been so unpopular with the people of the world, and the rulers of the capitalist countries are obliged to take into account popular pressure, if it is strong enough.
Banishing Israel from the nations is a realistic prospect.
In conclusion
We continue and will continue, tirelessly, to demand an immediate and permanent ceasefire, as well as free access for humanitarians throughout the Gaza Strip, and the complete withdrawal of the occupying forces from the enclave. But this will not be enough.
A just peace means the dismantling of the colonies, the return of the refugees and an independent Palestinian state. What prevents such a peace is the existence of a colonial state. The workers of Israel cannot be free if they do not break with Zionism, if they continue to find themselves objectively in the camp of the colonizers. Solidarity with Palestine cannot be satisfied with general phrases about peace. We need a state where all inhabitants enjoy the same rights and can live together, regardless of their origin, in this case, a democratic Palestinian state. Similarly, the national liberation struggle of the Palestinian people does not need compassion, but real political support and actions of internationalist solidarity. And for France, where the Revolutionaries, as elsewhere, must first fight their capitalists, this begins with the political struggle against the support of French imperialism for the Zionist colonial state.
This is why the Revolutionary Communist Party intends to continue to bring together all those who want an immediate ceasefire to end the massacre of Palestinians and who speak out for peace. For us, this means supporting the fundamental demands of the Palestinian national liberation movement, especially after the assassination of one of its leaders: an immediate end to Zionist military aggression, the right of return for refugees and the formation of a Palestinian state on the territory of Mandatory Palestine.
[1] . Reason given to justify the torture practiced by the French army during the Algerian war.