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The Infanticide that is inherent in Israel’s Genocide

By Iqbal Suleman

As head chopping is central to Isis and its military and power expression, baby killing is central to Israel and its military and power expression.  No one loves head chopping more than Isis and no one loves baby killing more than Israel. Has anyone killed more babies than Israel? Has anyone chopped more human heads than Isis? These expressions of barbarism cloak their vile conduct in a religious garb but everything Isis does is contrary to the human rights and justice centred ideology of Islam. Just as everything that Israel does is contrary to the human rights and justice centred ideology of Judaism. Israel and Isis profess to be the champions of Judaism and Islam respectively but the savagery of their conduct is more Luciferian than Godly.

Baby killing is revolting to every human being but what is it in the Israeli Zionist psychology that actualizes baby killing? After the October 7 attacks on Israel, the Sunday Times reported the words of Saar Ben Hamoo a South African Zionist and devout supporter of Israel who stated “We will drink the blood of your children in Gaza”. The Zionist Ben Hamoo is guilty of hate speech but he also demonstrates a sense of infanticide insight as he expressed the Zionist infanticide before Israel was to prosecute its genocide in Gaza. Prior to October 7th  no one could have ever imagined the mercilessness of Israeli Zionists in their pursuit of the policy of infanticide. How is it that this Zionist Ben Hamoo knew that baby killing will be the central motivating aspect of the Genocide in revenge for the October 7 attacks on Israel?

The natural human tendency is to express love, kindness and gentleness towards a child whether the child be a relative or a stranger. Anyone who thinks about hurting a child or even tries to hurt a child is considered a degenerate. Anyone who hits a child is considered an imbecile. But to deliberately break the limbs of a child and to even think of killing a child, this is something that is beyond human comprehension. The killing of a child is the most repulsive human act but this is exactly what Israeli Zionists have been doing and continue to do in the occupied Gaza strip in Palestine.

In October 2023, after the outbreak of the Gaza war, Al Jazeera reported that Israel kills a Palestinian child every fifteen minutes. Bragi Gudbransson, the Vice Chair of the Committee on the Rights of the child (CRC) told reporters on Thursday the 19th September 2024 “The outrageous death of children is almost historically unique. This is an extremely dark place in history.  The CRC which monitors compliance of governments to the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the child, on Thursday released its findings in six governments which included Israel. The report states “it is greatly concerned about the high number of children in Gaza killed, maimed, injured, missing, displaced, orphaned and subjected to famine, malnutrition and disease” as a result of Israel’s “indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks’. A week ago, the Gaza health ministry published the names of 710 Palestinian new-born babies killed by Israeli forces during the ongoing war. Since October 7th the confirmed number of identified deaths of Palestinian children killed by Israel is 16700. Apart from this number of confirmed identities and deaths, the International Committee of the Red Cross, in its report in June this year reported that more than 20 000 Palestinian children are missing in Gaza as a result of Israel’s military attack on the strip. Most of these missing children are probably dead and rotting under the rubble. At the very least, Israel has slaughtered 36 700 children in Gaza.

The chief of the United Nations Antonio Gutierrez remarked that “Gaza has become a graveyard for children”.  But the children of Gaza are not just dying, they are being killed. More than just a graveyard, Gaza has become a slaughterhouse for children. According to UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini “Children are bearing the brunt of Israel’s war”. “This is a war on children. It is a war on their childhood and their future” says Lazzarini.  Save the Children U.K state “We simply cannot accept the violence that Palestinian children continue to face as normal”. Yet the infanticide in Gaza has been normalized. Al Jazeera Lab reports that at least 57 children have been killed in Gaza every day.  Other experts consider this number to be conservative and that the real figure to be astronomically higher with the number of dead babies buried under the rubble of Gaza.

International medics who have no political affiliation to Palestine but have gone to work in Gaza purely on a humanitarian basis, provide us with first hand eye witness accounts of what they have actually witnessed in Gaza post October 7th.  English doctor, Professor Nick Maynard is one such doctor. Maynard says “I am not a politician, I’m a doctor””. Maynard worked in both the Al Aqsa hospital and Al Shifa hospital in Gaza. He told the Irish Times about his observations whilst working in the hospitals in Gaza “We saw a lot of children with their arms or legs that were blown off”. He adds “There were no painkillers to give the children”. More than four hundred Palestinians were slaughtered by the Israeli attack on Al Shifa hospital when Israel claimed that the hospital was used by Hamas. Maynard unequivocally rejects Israeli allegations that Hamas was operating at Al Shifa Hospital. He says “I have never seen any evidence of Hamas there”.

Firoze Sidhwa is a 42 year old trauma and critical care surgeon at San Joaquin General Hospital in North California went with a mission of the World Health Organisation to work at the European Hospital in Khan Younis in Gaza. What Sidwha described to Bruno Macaes of the New Statesman about the killing of children in Gaza is chilling to the core “Most of them have been killed in explosions where a lot of them would have been trapped under the rubble. Some are going to die immediately with a concrete block hitting their head or something like that but a lot of them just had their leg pinned under the rubble and because there is no heavy moving equipment, there is no way to get to them, they slowly died of sepsis while buried in the dark tomb alone, freezing during the night, boiling during the day. It would take three, four, five days for them to die in this way. It’s horrific to think of the scale of their suffering”.  What a torturous and painful death for the many children of Gaza.

Israel has been deliberately targeting and killing the children of Gaza. As Doctor Sidhwa told Macaes and the New Statesman about what he observed in Gaza “We had kids shot in the chest and shot in the head, in other words clearly deliberate, clearly targeted”. Sidhwa says that he spoke to another doctor from a different hospital in Gaza and asked him about how often he encounters kids being shot by Israelis and the doctor responded “All the time, every day, kids were coming in who had been shot in the head and chest”.

Sidhwa and other medical doctors penned a letter to the Biden Administration to advocate an end to the infanticide in Gaza. Part of the letter from these doctors who worked in Gaza Hospitals reads “Every one of us on a daily basis treated pre-teen children who were shot in the head and chest”.

Despite the clear evidence of infanticide, the U.S continues to support Israel and provide it with more weapons to keep its baby killing machine running. One wonders when the vampiric thirst for the blood of Palestinian children of Zionists like Ben Hamoo and his tribe will be satiated.  How much more blood of Palestinian babies do Zionists need to drink before they stop with their infanticide? When will the world powers stop this infanticide? How many more babies in Gaza have to be killed before the U.S and Europe stops arming the baby killers in Tel Aviv and impose sanctions on the Genocidal regime? How will we answer on that day when we all return and stand before our Creator, the most Just and are asked “For what crime was the child of Gaza killed?”  Surely the darkest depths of hellfire is the appropriate abode for every baby killer and their accomplices.

 

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