Genocide

Israel’s War on Palestinians Escalates as Civilian Casualties Spike

Referring to it as the Israel-Hamas War erases what Israel is doing to innocent Palestinians and the destruction of Gaza

Two young women attending a protest in London over Israel’s massacre of unarmed Palestinians in Gaza Credit: Alisdare Hickson / Creative Commons

Since the attack by Hamas on October 7, Israel has waged a campaign that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refers to as a war. But war is fought between two adversaries with equally matched militaries. The Palestinian people are anything but equally matched against what is often referred to as the most powerful military in the Middle East.

From bombing hospitals and residential buildings to killing thousands of innocent Palestinians, including hundreds of children, Israel is being indiscriminate about who they consider the enemy. Under the guise of being at war with Hamas, its campaign of horror follows the same track Israel has maintained for decades. In just the last two years, Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and Israeli police have killed about 500 adults and 68 children. All of them innocent civilians.

We don’t have to look back to the beginning to see what Israel has done. In just the last several decades, the apartheid state has relentlessly removed Palestinians from their homes only to hand them over to Jewish people from the West…