At last, the ICC has acted But genocide by Israel continues

London - Maher Othman

On daily basis since October 7th, 2023, Israel war planes’ pilots and Israeli gunners kill an average of 50 to 80 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and blow-up houses, schools, hospitals, clinics, places of worship having finished destroying universities and life- supporting infrastructure.

At last, The Prosecutor of the ICC has issued arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and his former Security (Defence) Minister Gallant for overseeing war crimes and crimes against humanity and prosecuting a war of genocide, including a starvation war against the Palestinian population of the Gaza Strip.

The whole world has been watching these Israeli crimes unfolding on television screens in real time despite the fact that Israel has targeted and killed literally well over a hundred of Palestinian journalists and camera men.

The immediate reaction from Israeli government officials and opposition leaders was to accuse the ICC of being antisemitic.

This overused accusation used by Israel against anyone who criticises its criminal behaviour rings hollow: the massive majority of Israelis have no Semitic genes for they are Ashkenazi Jews of Russian, German, Polish, American French and British origins.

The rest of the Israelis are Arab Jews from Iraq, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and Lebanon and Syria who are of Semitic stock (like Middle Eastern Arabs) and they lived happily in their countries before the onslaught of Zionism.

It is not expected that Netanyahu and Gallant will face justice anytime soon or that Netanyahu and his cohorts will stop committing the evil crimes’, but it is hoped that all countries who are members of the ICC will stop sending arms to Israel and will impose sanctions on Israel and will arrest Netanyahu and Gallant if they land on their territories.

The destruction of Gaza and the genocide war against its population are similar in some ways to the ethnic cleansing campaign the Zionists led against the Palestinian people in the 1948 war. Both were planned and carried out systematically.

In 1948, more than 500 Palestinian villages were depopulated before they were raised to the ground. Since 7 October 2023 Israel has killed members of whole families and killed more than 150 doctors, and hundreds of medical staff and ambulance drivers and scientists and academics.

The Israeli army and air force pilots have been using AI to carry out the destruction of life and life-supporting infrastructure.