Good morning, dear reader,
how much can a person endure? How does a mother feel when she holds her dead child in her arms, or how does a boy feel when he carries his brother’s body to the grave? How long can you endure having hundreds of seriously injured and starving people around you, day and night, while you fear for your own life because a bullet could strike at any moment? There are words for such situations, but it is difficult to describe what a person really feels in such a situation. Horror is too small a word, catastrophe an all too often used phrase.
What is happening in the Gaza Strip these days goes beyond the expressive power of language. A tragedy of indescribable proportions is taking place before the eyes of the world, and of course that is another phrase. More than two million people become victims of systematic violence – through no fault of their own. This has to be emphasized because the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians Since October 7th, not only the military fighting has escalated, but also the war over words. For fear of possibly saying the wrong thing or even being labeled an anti-Semite, many people in this country prefer not to say anything at all. However, anyone who no longer names injustice as such makes it even worse. When words are silent, weapons roar louder.
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Anyone who sees themselves as a humanist and loves peace cannot remain silent in the face of the war in Gaza. Even if you take its triggers into account. Supported by the terrorists Teheran the terrorists have the Hamas had been preparing a brutal attack on Israelis for years. They diverted building materials for houses, clinics and water pipes financed from international donations to build their perfidious tunnel system while the civilian population starved.
When they struck at the beginning of October, they showed no mercy: Hit squads and their followers murdered in kibbutzim and at a music festival 1,200 people and injured more than 5.400 others raped women and tortured children to death. There is rightly agreement far beyond Israel: the perpetrators and those behind them must be held accountable; something like this must never happen again.
For the Israeli government and its military this means: Hamas must be completely destroyed and its fighters must be eliminated – at all costs.
And that’s where the problem begins. The way in which the Israeli commanders are conducting the operation in the Gaza Strip is described in the German media as “robust” or “ruthless”. In truth, she is brutal. She is merciless. She is inhumane. Tanks and fighter jets are reducing entire neighborhoods to rubble and firing non-stop at buildings where Hamas people are suspected. Israeli military spokesmen cynically call the fact that countless civilians are hit “collateral damage.” More than 24,000 people have been killed since the Israeli attacks began, according to the Palestinian Health Authority 60.000 were injured. Even if you think of those 9,000 terrorists withdraws, which Israel already wants to have eliminated, remains a monstrously high number. In the past 48 hours, the heaviest fighting since the beginning of the year has raged in northern Gaza.
Many children in particular are among the victims: They suffer severe burns and lose their arms, legs and eyesight. I decided against showing you photos of these children, but they exist, countless. They spread on social media and reach millions of people in the Arab world. They then ask themselves why the West shows great sympathy for the Israeli victims of terror – but has so little empathy for the Palestinian victims. “You have double standards, you hypocrites”, is another one of the milder accusations you can read there. Terrorist networks are calling for retribution for Westerners’ inhumanity by carrying out attacks in Europe. German security services warn: The threat of terrorism has not been as great as it is now for a long time.
Why don’t the Palestinians in Gaza get more help? 600 trucks with relief supplies would be needed per day – there are actually only 50 to 70. What happens to all the water bottles, food packages, medicines, tents that have been sent out? I got this from our reporter Patrick Diekmann asked who has just returned from a trip with Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock returned and examined the situation at the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip.
I asked Patrick: What is the situation in Rafah, what have you seen?
Patrick’s answer: The Egyptian border crossing at Rafah is the gate to hell. According to aid organizations, up to two million people in need of help are stuck in the south of the coastal area. They lack everything: food, medicine, shelter and even drinking water because a seawater desalination plant was hit in the Israeli attacks.
Why isn’t more humanitarian aid coming to the Gaza Strip?
Israel and Egypt blame each other for this. On the Egyptian side we could see that thousands of trucks were jammed in front of the border, but only a few vehicles were allowed through. We spoke to Red Crescent employees on site. They warn that the humanitarian catastrophe could become massively worse in the coming weeks. It could be that many people will soon starve to death.
What exactly is not working with the supply?
A lot. The Israeli army determines how many trucks carrying humanitarian goods can cross the border and how many Palestinians can receive medical care in Egypt. Despite all understanding for the Israeli mission against the terrorist organization Hamas, this is fatal for the humanitarian situation on site. Why can only 50 trucks cross the Gaza border in a 6-hour period and not 150 at any time of the day or night? Nobody on site could explain that to us.
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