It’s that sad, but it’s probably war in Gaza It won’t end until the day Israeli society consider that the number of dead jewish soldiers It is unaffordable. The Army is one of the few things that unites the cacophony of tribes of Israel. The ‘Family’ they call it. Not in vain, the majority of the country serves in their cadres for a minimum of two years – three in the case of men – followed by one month a year as reservists until they turn at least 40. But the tolerance for declines in “most moral army in the world”, as its leaders call it, is usually minimal. Of the six wars he has fought since 2006, the highest number of casualties He suffered them that same year in Lebanonwith 119 soldiers killedfollowed by the one fought in Gaza in 2014, with 69. This war is different, but if there is consensus on something, it is that during the land invasion that had already begun Many Israeli soldiers will die.
This war is different because it started with 331 soldiers killed –according to the official figure– and almost a thousands of civilians in just three days, something unusual in the history of the country. If we add the brutality with which Hamas killed many of his victims, it will be understood why the morale of his army at this time is surprising even the most veteran observers. But fight between Gaza ruins – savagely bombarded with 11,000 bombs since October 7according to their spokespersons– and the underground tunnel labyrinth of its armed factions, with hundreds of thousands of civilians everywhere, is a nightmare for any army. And the casualties begin to arrive, with the photos of devastated mothers in front of the coffins of their children.
15 deaths announced to date, most of Tuesday. Nine died after a armored was attacked with a anti-tank missile, others after a tank step on a explosive device. The Army has acknowledged that it is suffering hard blows, including some ambushes and a lot of anti-tank fire. “We have achieved many important achievements, but also painful losses”, his prime minister said this Wednesday, Binyamin Netanyahu. “We know that each of our soldiers is worth a world. The entire people of Israel embrace the families from the depths of our hearts.” But that same Netanyahu, one of the most cynical and unscrupulous politicians of recent decades, will probably also be the main obstacle for this war to end.
Netanyahu’s career is over
In Israel everyone repeats that his career will inevitably end the day the bombs stop, which could also precipitate his entry into prison for the open cases that have followed him for years. Netanyahu not only had half the country in arms protesting for months against his reign, but with his usual chutzpah dared to unceremoniously blaming the military and intelligence of the disastrous mistakes that led to the Hamas attack, without assuming the slightest bit of responsibility. And that’s why he said this week that a Stop the fire would be equivalent to a “surrender” before the Palestinian Islamists.
That scenario still seems very far away. While the population of Gaza continues to be beaten – there is already 8,800 deadincluding 3,650 children and 2,300 womenin addition to 22,200 injured–, the ‘Jerusalem Post’ published this Wednesday that “he has known” from well-informed sources The war will last “several months”. A first phase of “total war” would be followed by a second phase of “fight against insurgency” after declaring an “initial victory”, Phases that, according to the conservative newspaper, each of them could last for months. Which suggests that the Israeli Army intends occupy Gaza for a long time until you can assume full or partial control of the enclave and find someone to take care of the disaster.
New massacre in the Jabalia refugee camp
The question then becomes knowing how many tens of thousands of Palestinians will die in the operation, increasingly described as “a genocide.” Are not politicians of volatile principles those who express it this way but experts on the matter such as, Volker Turkthe director of the New York office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the UN, who worked on the issue when Tutsis, Rohingya or Bosnian Muslims were brutally massacred. “This is a textbook genocide”, he said this week when presenting his resignation in protest at the passivity of the UN system to stop the tragedy. “In Gaza, civilian homes, schools, churches, mosques and health institutions are being deliberately attacked while its population is massacred,” he wrote.
These attacks continue without remission, with American weapons and the blessing of many European countries. For the second day in a row Israel bombed the overcrowded Jabalia refugee campwhere the day before left 400 dead and injured, including a trail of dismembered children, a massacre that he justified with the head of a minor Hamas commander. In today’s attack, they have been 50 dead and half a dozen buildings erased from the map, according to Palestinian authorities. “This is just the latest atrocity against the population of Gaza, just at the moment when the fighting has entered an even more terrifying phase and with increasingly terrible humanitarian consequences,” said the UN humanitarian chief, Martin Griffiths.
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The only hospital for cancer patients has run out of fuel to continue providing services. Many ambulances have braked for the same reason, and one attack has damaged a ophthalmological center. In between, the population continues drinking brackish water en masse or directly contaminated with pesticides, with potentially lethal consequences, as warned in an internal State Department report, published in an exclusive by EL PERIÓDICO. “This is a moment of life or death for thousands of people if hospitals stop working. If we don’t get the treatments they need, it will be a sdeath sentence for them,” said an official from the World Health Organization.
Those UN agencies are being the consciousness of the world in a world without consciousness, what they are paying with the lives of dozens of their workers. But a few countries are also beginning to move in protest at what is happening. After what Bolivia broke relations with Israel, Jordan has withdrawn its ambassador to the Jewish State, something it has also done Chili.