The Gaza Genocide: When the End Comes, Who Will Be Sorry for Israel?

By Jeremy Salt

Is there a humane solution to this, a settlement without further wars and mass destruction? At this point, the clear answer has to be ‘no.’

A Jewish settler wearing the uniform of an occupying army crouches on a hill outside the occupied West Bank village of Mughhayir and sprays bullets at a school.

Aws al-Nasaan, 14, and Jihad Abu Naim, 30, a construction worker nearby, are shot dead. Teachers and students take cover in their classrooms. Some students bravely rush outside to take their mortally wounded classmate away.

Other occupation forces arrive. They do nothing to restrain the gunman but fire tear gas into students and villagers gathering outside the school. They follow this up by disrupting the funeral procession and firing tear gas into the mourners.

The murderer is not arrested or charged, but suspended and has his gun taken from him. That is the extent of his punishment and no more will be heard about it. The London ‘Guardian’ refers to the killer not as a murderer or terrorist but as a ”militant.”

Aws’ father, Hamdi, was murdered by a settler in 2019. Such is the fate of untold thousands of Palestinian families. The violence and humiliation heaped on them seems to have no limits, as indicated by the depravity of using dogs to rape Palestinians in an Israeli prison.

Needless to say, dogs don’t naturally sexually assault human beings. They have to be trained. The evidence of this particularly sick crime is abundant but the media is not interested. Israel denies it, so it can’t be true; thus, there is no need to investigate.

In Gaza, rats feed off human feet because Israel has deliberately reproduced the conditions of a medieval plague. It has turned Gaza into a rat breeding ground, where life flourishes for lice and the scabies mite, not human beings. Israel has massacred and maimed hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with bullets, missiles, and tank shells, but they can also be killed by denying them everything needed to live.

About 80 percent of Palestinian families are now living in tents. With 90 percent of sanitation and water infrastructure destroyed or damaged, with sewage pooling on the open ground, and with no fuel available for water pumps, sanitation is a critical issue.

There might be one lavatory for hundreds of people and they have to queue to use it. Some tents have makeshift lavatories or portable alternatives provided by aid agencies.

About 150,000 pregnant women and nursing mothers have been forcibly ‘displaced’ into tents and makeshift shelters in southern Gaza.

The UN’s Population Fund (UNFPA) says the lack of menstrual products, clean water, and soap for Gaza’s 700,000 women and girls makes it impossible for them to manage their periods.

Aid blocked by Israel includes sanitary pads. Less than a quarter of the 10 million pads needed every month are not available so women and girls, UNFPA reports, “are using torn clothes, sponges or old rags, often without proper cleaning.” UNFPA is distributing two-month supplies of sanitary pads as well as post-partum kits for new mothers.

With only 12 of 35 hospitals even partly functioning, all are overcrowded. There has been an unprecedented rise in congenital ‘anomalies’, a 140 percent rise in stillbirths, and at the Nasser hospital in Gaza, a 41 percent fall in births, along with maternal deaths.

Physicians for Human Rights says Israel is deliberately intending to prevent Palestinian births, with its attacks on medical facilities, including the December 2023 destruction of 5000 embryos and samples of sperm and eggs at the Basma fertility clinic. These actions are genocidal under the terms of the 1948 convention,

Skin diseases, watery and bloody diarrhea, and chickenpox are spreading among children, while an outbreak of polio in 2024 was the first in more than 25 years.

This is Israel’s ‘year zero,’ the genocide not just of people but of their landscape, their culture, and their history. The records of human life in Gaza over thousands of years are being obliterated.

This tidal wave of zionist anti-humanity is gradually engulfing West Asia without anyone stopping it, and with many supporting it. In the past year, scores of villages in southern Lebanon have been wiped off the map or destroyed to the extent that they are no longer inhabitable.

This is a replay of 1948-9, when the Zionists destroyed hundreds of villages and hamlets across Palestine, with the same intention as now in Gaza and southern Lebanon, which is to create nothing to come back to. The media calls the depopulation by an invading army in Lebanon “evacuation,” when it is again large-scale ethnic cleansing, a sub-unit of genocide.

The US/Israel have (or ‘has’, seeing they operate as a single unit) massacred 3468 people in Iran and wounded 26,500 since launching their attack on February 28, 2026. The dead include 4000 women and more than 1000 children. In Lebanon, 2702 civilians have been killed and 8311 wounded in Israeli attacks.

The UN’s Office for the Commissioner for Human Rights (OCHRA) says that in just three weeks from March 2, 2026, invading Israeli forces killed 1029 people in Lebanon and wounded 2768. One million people were “displaced,” when again the accurate phrase is ‘ethnically cleansed.’

On the occupied West Bank, settlers are licensed to kill, burn, vandalize, and drive out as they wish. Many have been inducted into the army as an untrained but murderous auxiliary force. The head of the occupying forces on the West Bank says matter-of-factly that they are “killing like we haven’t since 1967.”

This state-sanctioned murder of unarmed people is accompanied by the expulsion of thousands from their villages and even their complete abandonment. The settlers are jubilant. They have ‘returned’ to the land in which none of their forebears ever lived.

The Israeli-born scholar Omer Bartov has just published a book on the theme of ‘what went wrong’, when Zionism did not go wrong but was wrong from the start and is working out just as its architects had planned.

Israel’s annihilationist intentions are now proclaimed openly and brazenly by Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, Katz, Smotrich, and many others. They are summed up by Jonathan Pollard, the Jewish American spy who stole enough classified documents to fill the bedroom of a suburban home, and was released in 2015 after 28 years in prison.

He is now seeking election to the Knesset on an open ticket of genocide. “I personally prefer the forcible removal of all current residents of Gaza and the annexation of Gaza and its repopulation by us.”

This is his campaign ticket. Note the similarity between the temporary “current residents” and Arthur Balfour’s “existing non-Jewish communities” in Palestine, as if the time will come when they won’t be “current” or “existing” any longer, which is precisely what Balfour had in mind and what the Zionists have always had in mind.

Israel is the most dangerous state on the planet. This is a swollen colonial settler regime of about 10 million people, insignificant numerically on a global demographic basis, but very significant when its lawless nature and possession of nuclear weapons are taken into account. It has let it be known that the day might come when it is crazy enough to use these weapons, and it would be folly not to take it at its word.

Zionism is a kin ideology to Nazism and should be outlawed for the same reasons. Nazi ideology gave rise to the Nazi regime and its crimes, and Zionist ideology gave rise to a Zionist regime and its crimes. The two are linked by the same inhumane instincts.

Yet, armed and indulged by ‘western’ governments, Israel’s time is finally running out. The favored child of the 1950s and 1960s is now recognized globally as the monster it always was.

Gaza will turn out to be the greatest mistake Israel ever made. It flaunted the crimes it was committing. It boasted about them. It filmed the humiliation of its victims and lied about its massacres. It raped, imprisoned, and tortured as if it wanted the world to know that there was no crime it was not prepared to commit in defense of the Jewish state.

Is there a humane solution to this, a settlement without further wars and mass destruction? At this point, the clear answer has to be ‘no.’ Israel’s choices center not on peace but on conquest and the complete extinguishment of the Palestinian people.

Some will say there must be a peaceful solution, but there are times in life when dialogue and negotiations run out of steam, and nothing is left but to run away or stand up to the bully. Western and Arab governments are running away. Hamas, Hizbullah, Yemen, Iran, and pockets of resistance elsewhere are standing up to the bully.

If there is hope, it lies in the rising opposition to Israel in the US. A young generation is coming into power and will want to shake this parasite from America’s back.

After Gaza, it is no longer fanciful to imagine US arms and economic embargoes against Israel, accompanied by threats of suspension from the UN and complete diplomatic isolation, as the tide gathers momentum. The good days for Israel have gone for good.

Without the steroids of US money and weaponry, Israel will be stuck. No one else is likely to step up as the replacement benefactor for a racist, genocidal state. The choices before it will then be stark, but by this time, it will be too far gone to make the choices it could have made decades earlier. It will realize it has boxed itself into a corner and can’t get out. Who but itself will feel sorry for it?