Plumbing the Depths of Human Depravity: 450 Days of Extermination in Gaza

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For 450 days, the State of Israel has been engaged in a sustained policy of vengeance and extermination against the trapped civilian population of the Gaza Strip, a “Holy War” driven by a vile supremacist settler colonial mentality masquerading as the fulfilment of an invented religious entitlement to the Palestinians’ land, involving a giddy and unfettered hatred of the Palestinians as sub-human, and specific revenge for the assault on Israel, on October 7, 2023, in which armed militants who had broken out of the “open-air prison” in which they had been confined for 16 years, went on a killing spree that left 1,068 Israelis and 71 foreign nationals dead, and also kidnapped 251 others.

At the barest minimum, over the last 450 days, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians — mostly civilians — have been killed, or will die, as a result of relentless bombing raids, in which block after block of residential housing, containing almost a quarter of a million homes, has been completely destroyed or damaged, mostly without warning, using bombs of such devastating ferocity that those killed have been torn apart, decapitated, crushed, hurled through the air like broken dolls, or buried alive.

Survivors, meanwhile, have been picked off by snipers, or by armed drones and quadcopters, or have died — and will continue to die — because of a “complete siege” imposed two days after the October 7 attacks, cutting off supplies of food and water, of fuel and of vital medical equipment and supplies. This, accompanied by the almost unimaginably cynical destruction of most of Gaza’s hospitals and health centres, has sentenced to death as yet untold numbers of the elderly, pregnant women, babies and children, those with existing medical conditions, and those with diseases created by the siege, as well as the complete destruction of Gaza’s water and sewage systems.

For the second winter running, most of the surviving population, herded south as their homes were systematically destroyed, are living in makeshift tents, where death by hypothermia is the latest method of extermination introduced by Israel.

In the north, meanwhile, a “genocide within a genocide” has been ongoing for the last three months, as those who remained — defying evacuation orders, or physically unable to flee to the south — have been subjected to a specific policy of ethnic cleansing and extermination, dubbed the “Generals’ Plan”, whereby they are being starved and murdered with renewed intensity while most of the world, no longer even interested, turns a blind eye.

The abduction of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, and the imprisonment and killing of doctors

On Friday, this policy reached a horrendous crescendo, when the largest surviving hospital in northern Gaza, Kamal Adwan Hospital, besieged and attacked for most of the last three months, was finally forced to shut, as Israeli forces set fire to it, forcing medical staff and patients who were well enough to walk to leave the hospital and to march south, half-stripped in the freezing cold.

Others, however, like the hospital’s tenacious director, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, were abducted and have disappeared into Israel’s notorious torture prisons for Palestinians, run by the vile far-right government minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, where hundreds of doctors and medical staff have been, or continue to be held, and where 50 prisoners are known to have been killed since October 7, 2023.

They include three doctors, Dr. Iyad Rantisi, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital’s maternity department, who was seized and killed last November, Dr. Ziad Eldalou, seized and killed in March, and Dr. Adnan al-Bursh, a renowned orthopaedic surgeon who was seized last December, and died in April, quite possibly as a result of injuries sustained while being raped by his guards.

While western media have reluctantly paid attention to the violent destruction of Kamal Adwan Hospital, they are guilty, as is generally the case, of persistently parroting unsubstantiated Israeli propaganda. Sky News, for example, cited, unquestioningly, an Israeli military statement that it had “conducted and completed a targeted operation”, because “the hospital was being used as a command centre for Hamas military operations”, adding that Dr. Abu Safiya was “among those taken for questioning”, suspected of being a “Hamas terrorist operative.”

You don’t even have to be particularly cynical to note that Israel has persistently sought to justify its destruction of Gaza’s hospitals via risible propaganda about them being “Hamas command centres.” Even as western media outlets have continued to be the stenographers for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, other organizations have thoroughly repudiated any reliance on Israeli claims.

In October, for example, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory issued a devastating report in which it found that “Israel has perpetrated a concerted policy to destroy Gaza’s healthcare system as part of a broader assault on Gaza, committing war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination with relentless and deliberate attacks on medical personnel and facilities”, and specifically noted that, although “Israeli security forces asserted that over 85 per cent of major medical facilities in Gaza were used by Hamas for terror operations”, they “did not provide evidence to substantiate that claim.”

Last month, Milena Ansari of Human Rights Watch, who issued a highly critical report in August about the arbitrary detention and torture of healthcare workers, clarified that, despite Israel’s claims of Hamas connections, they had no evidence to substantiate those claims. As she told Al Jazeera a month ago, discussing the imprisoned medical workers, “Many aren’t even charged, they’re just asked general questions, like: ‘Who’s your Imam?’, ‘What mosque do you go to?’ or even ‘Are you a member of Hamas?’ but without providing any evidence.”

Ansari’s assessment was supported by Naji Abbas of Physicians for Human Rights Israel, whose lawyer had managed to visit some of the medical personnel held. As Abbas explained, “Most of the doctors and nurses reported that the investigation was ‘fishing’ for information, but they weren’t accused [of] any charges.”

It all reminds me of the US government’s behavior in its “war on terror”, when 779 men and boys were largely rounded up arbitrarily, and sent to Guantánamo to be exploited for “intelligence”, largely without any evidentiary basis for believing that they had any useful information in the first place, despite the Bush administration’s protestations that they were “the worst of the worst.”

Like Hiroshima and Nagasaki

After 450 days of genocide, much of Gaza looks like the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the US dropped atomic bombs on them in August 1945 — levelled, erased, in an almost complete repudiation of the Palestinians’ very existence.

Elsewhere, where buildings still stand, they look like Dresden, the German city carpet-bombed by Allied forces in 1945, killing 25,000 people, or Aleppo, where 35,000 buildings were destroyed and over 30,000 civilians killed between 2012 and 2016 during the Syrian Civil War.

Remember, too, that unlike most military conflicts, the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip have no means of escape; they are trapped in their “open-air prison”, or in what Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) recently described as a “death trap.”

By all accounts, over 100,000 Palestinians who could afford to pay extortionate fees to Egyptian gangsters escaped to Egypt in the first eight months of the the genocide, although even that escape route has been cut off since May this year, when Israel closed the Rafah Crossing, and in Egypt most have not found a warm welcome.

The rest of the population has, however, been trapped, unable to flee, victims of a “siege” that resembles, in its intensity, the Nazis’ 28-month Siege of Leningrad in the Second World War, when over a million Russian civilians died, and, in other ways, the Nazis’ Warsaw Ghetto, where the Nazis held hundreds of thousands of Polish Jews between 1940 and 1943, killing 300,000 directly, and 92,000 through starvation and disease, and sending over 300,000 to death camps.

While certain humans’ sickening enthusiasm for war and for the extermination of any group of people designated as the “other” is threaded throughout our existence, never, to my knowledge, have so many been killed with such an insatiable bloodlust based on one specific day of brutality, in which, at most, 1,139 people were murdered, although, as even the Israeli newspaper Ynet has conceded, no one knows how many were killed by the Israelis themselves, through “friendly fire” or implementation of the notorious Hannibal Directive.

Erasing history

One of the most pernicious lies used in an attempt to justify this apparently ceaseless slaughter is that the events of October 7 took place in a vacuum, when they were quite clearly a response by the military resistance of an occupied people (allowed under international law) to the previous 16 years of being trapped in an “open-air prison” and regularly attacked. As the UN has established, from 2008 until the October 7 attacks, at least 5,300 Palestinians were killed (compared to 345 Israelis) and over 150,000 injured in bombing raids and targeted killings; in other words, the October 7 attacks came in response to nearly five times as many Palestinian deaths over the previous 15 years as the number of Israeli deaths on October 7.

The attacks on October 7 also took place in a much larger context — the systematic murder, dispossession and sustained oppression of the Palestinian people by Jewish settler-terrorists over the previous 75 years, which began in earnest in 1948 when 15,000 Palestinians were killed, and 750,000 driven from their homes during the Nakba (“catastrophe”), when the State of Israel was founded, and which has continued ever since.

While many of the dispossessed were driven out of Palestine completely, to Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt, where their six million descendants still live, despite a UN resolution in December 1948 calling for their right of return, others became internal refugees, confined to refugee camps on what had been their own land in the Gaza Strip (administered by Egypt), in the West Bank (administered by Jordan), and in East Jerusalem.

The situation didn’t improve when Israel “conquered” Gaza and the West Bank in the Six Days’ War in 1967. The UN immediately condemned the occupation, but has been paralyzed by inaction ever since, as it has been since Israel’s bloodstained foundation, its repeated violations of UN resolutions holding up a “dark mirror” to the UN’s shortcomings and showing contempt for the entire international community — with the exception of its close allies like the US and the UK — throughout its entire history.

Unrestrained, Israel has become ever more predatory, reinforcing a shameful system of apartheid, seizing land in the West Bank for settlements, imprisoning, since 1967, over a million Palestinians, at various times, in its brutal and fundamentally lawless prisons for Palestinians, and responding with savage violence to various uprisings — the civil disobedience of the First Intifada (1987-91), the often violent Second Intifada (2000-05), and, most heartbreakingly, the Great March of Return (March 2018 to December 2019), when largely peaceful protests by Palestinians demanding a return to their ancestral lands were met with a persistent armed response from the Israeli security forces. In the first year, over 6,000 demonstrators were shot, and 183 killed, and a UN Commission of Inquiry later concluded, “Lethal force was used by ISF against children who posed no imminent threat to soldiers and in several instances it was likely that Israeli snipers shot at children intentionally.”

Is everyone Hamas?

In an attempt to justify its unjustifiable violence over the last 450 days, Israel has not only sought to erase its own bloody history; it has also deviously sought to erase all distinctions between military targets and civilians, as it has pursued its stated military goal — “eradicating Hamas.”

The evident problem with such a deliberately sweeping and ill-defined objective is that Hamas, a political organization founded in 1987, which had been governing the Gaza Strip since 2007, is primarily a bureaucratic organization, albeit one which, in common with territories under foreign occupation, also has a military wing — the Al-Qassam Brigades, largely responsible for the attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023, along with other militant groups.

Failing to recognize the distinction between Hamas’ political and military aspects, western countries, encouraged by Israel, obligingly designated the whole of Hamas as a terrorist organization, beginning with the US in 1995, and, most recently, including the UK government, in 2021.

As a result, when Israel began its assault on Gaza, western governments and media organizations not only failed to step outside of overbroad designations that they themselves had created; they also chose to frame the conflict as the ‘Israel-Hamas War’, even though this was akin to describing ‘The Troubles’ in Ireland as the ‘UK-IRA War’, or the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001 as the ‘US-Al-Qaeda War’, both of which, of course, never happened.

Some outlets have subsequently amended their description of the conflict to the ‘Israel-Gaza War’, but even that fails to properly describe what is, in fact, a largely one-sided assault by a foreign colonial power on territory that it illegally occupies — part of the Occupied Palestinian Territory (comprising Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem) that the UN has recognized since 1967.

According to Israel itself, Hamas had between 25,000 and 30,000 fighters (less than 1% of the population) prior to October 7, and yet, in its attacks on Gaza’s infrastructure, which has involved AI-driven targeting, it has destroyed or severely damaged over 70,000 structures, and damaged over 90,000 others, corresponding to “around 66% of the total structures in the Gaza Strip”, and including “a total of 227,591 estimated damaged housing units”, according to an analysis of satellite imagery published by UNOSAT (the United Nations Satellite Centre) on September 29, 2024.

That’s two to three structures destroyed for every alleged Hamas militant, and, although Israel claimed, in September, to have killed 17,000 Hamas militants, that figure was disputed by the academic research group ACLED (Armed Conflict Location & Event Data), which analyzed detailed IDF reports and concluded that no more than 8,500 fighters had been killed. Even that figure seems high, when the official death toll of 45,338, as of December 24, includes 16,735 men in total, as well as 13,319 children, 7,216 women, and 3,447 elderly people, but it makes more sense than the IDF’s figures, which would involve no civilian men having been killed at all, and the number of soldiers killed impossibly exceeding the total number of men killed in total.

If we accept that 8,500 figure, that means that eight structures have been destroyed for every militant killed, a discrepancy for which there are two deeply disturbing explanations. The first is that Israel’s supposedly advanced AI targeting, as reported by +972 Magazine in two articles in November 2023 and April 2024, which I discussed here, here and here, was so sweeping that one program, code-named Lavender, included suspected “low-level operatives” in Hamas, meaning that most of those killed — even if the targeting was accurate — cannot in any meaningful sense be regarded as having been active militants. As I explained in my article in April:

[T]he army … decided, soon after October 7, that, “for every junior Hamas operative that Lavender marked, it was permissible to kill up to 15 or 20 civilians,” superseding previous rules in which its was not regarded as acceptable for there to be any “collateral damage” during the killing of alleged low-ranking militants. The sources also explained that, “in the event that the target was a senior Hamas official with the rank of battalion or brigade commander, the army on several occasions authorized the killing of more than 100 civilians in the assassination of a single commander.”

Not only … did this policy shred “the principle of proportionality under international law”; it also led to the shockingly large number of civilian deaths recorded by the Health Ministry in Gaza … When 15 to 20 civilians are acceptable “collateral damage” in targeting one low-level militant, and more than a hundred are deemed acceptable for a senior figure, it’s no wonder that 90 percent of those killed have been civilians.

Another source, who spoke about another AI program, ‘The Gospel’, which I discussed a year ago, said that it “was not only being used to identify the supposed locations of senior Hamas leaders; it was also revealing the supposed homes of those who are merely ‘junior Hamas operatives,’ and approving them for elimination despite the associated loss of civilian lives. One official spelled out how expanding the targets to alleged ‘junior Hamas members’ — which had not happened in previous Israeli assaults on Gaza — had caused so much death. ‘That is a lot of houses,’ the official said, adding, ‘Hamas members who don’t really mean anything live in homes across Gaza. So they mark the home and bomb the house and kill everyone there.’”

Another revelation, as one source explained, was that, “when ‘Lavender’ was set up, the programmers ‘used the term “Hamas operative” loosely,’ so that ‘employees of the Hamas-run Internal Security Ministry, whom he does not consider to be militants,’ were included.”

In the context of the scale of the destruction, it seems reasonable to infer from this that many others involved with the bureaucracy of the Hamas government in any way were, shockingly, designated as viable targets, quite possibly including doctors and medical staff, ambulance drivers, civil defence teams, university professors, teachers, policemen, judges, bureaucrats, librarians, journalists, sanitation engineers, sewage operatives — the list could go on and on.

It is worth noting too that, unless Israel did indeed regard all of these people as Hamas, then the deliberate destruction of all their workplaces — hospitals, universities, schools, police stations, courts, offices, libraries, and water and sewage works — were, very nakedly, examples of sweeping war crimes. Either way, Israel loses its arguments, and its killing of so many people, even if they were working for the Hamas administration, is as illegal and unacceptable as its destruction of all of the infrastructure necessary for their work.

Specifically, however, given how Israel has deliberately smeared doctors and medical staff as Hamas operatives to justify their destruction of Gaza’s hospitals, and has also smeared journalists as, most recently, “combat propagandists” prior to assassinating them, it seems probable that overbroad targeting and spurious associations with Hamas have been endemic for the last 450 days.

Moreover, even these disturbing facts — of an untold number of targeted killings of civilians that clearly constitute war crimes — fails to reflect an even bleaker and more alarming truth: that in many other cases no connection with Hamas — not even bureaucratically — ever existed. Untold numbers of civilians have been killed not only because Israel deliberately tolerated an astonishingly high level of “collateral damage” when conducting its targeted attacks, but also because, over and over again, civilians have been killed without any pretence of any Hamas connection whatsoever.

And this, of course, is because, behind its claims of targeting killings intended to eliminate Hamas, and its cynical subterfuge of including public servants as Hamas members, Israel’s deeper intent, all along, has been to kill as many Palestinians as possible.

Genocide

Whatever Israel might pretend with all its subterfuge, its leaders, politicians, pundits, celebrities, citizens and soldiers have been telling the grim truth about their intentions from the very beginning: that, as Prime Minister Isaac Herzog claimed on October 12, “It is an entire nation out there that is responsible. It is not true this rhetoric about civilians not being aware, not involved. It’s absolutely not true.” Or, as defense minister Yoav Gallant said to Israeli soldiers on October 10, “I have released all restraints … We are fighting human animals … Gaza won’t return to what it was before. There will be no Hamas. We will eliminate everything.”

I could go on, but for anyone wanting to see the extent to which Israel’s leaders, other politicians, journalists and others have implicated themselves, please see here for Law For Palestine’s database of statements collected in the first four months of the conflict.

Very specifically, then, Israel has been demonstrating genocidal intent towards the Palestinians from the very beginning of this conflict, as was recognized almost a year ago by one of the few international bodies empowered to condemn it. In response to a submission submitted by South Africa, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), one of the six organs of the United Nations, found, as I described it at the time, that:

South Africa had established a compelling case that Israel’s actions, in response to the attacks by Hamas and other armed groups on October 7, were so severe that it is plausible that they constitute genocidal intent under Article II of the Genocide Convention; namely, “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group”, via “killing members of the group”, “causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group”, “deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part”, and “imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group.”

Sadly, the wheels of international justice move so slowly that it is expected to be many years until the ICJ will deliver a full ruling, and in the meantime the “provisional measures” it issued to Israel — to seek to prevent a full and decisive genocide ruling — were, predictably, dismissively swept aside. Nevertheless, the ruling was hugely important from the perspective of all those around the world who are seeking to hold Israel accountable for its crimes, and to prevent it — and its devoted western supporters; primarily, the US, Germany and the UK — from destroying international law to defend it.

War crimes and crimes against humanity

The ICJ opinion also led to a second hugely significant event, in November, when the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity; specifically, “the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts.”

The implications of that ruling are already being felt. Although the US noisily and violently condemned it, as a rogue state that refused to sign the Rome Statute establishing the ICC, the leaders of all the countries that have (124 in total) are clearly, for the most part, being told by their legal advisers, in no uncertain terms, that the arrest warrant is binding, that Netanyahu and Gallant are fugitives from the law, and that under no circumstances must either of them be allowed to visit.

The noose is also conspicuously tightening, as Netanyahu, who had intended to visit Poland to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by the Red Army in January, has canceled his visit, having been reliably informed that, if he sets foot in Poland, he will be arrested.

The US, of course, continues to provide shelter to these fugitives. Gallant recently visited the US, and Netanyahu was, shamefully, welcomed in Congress in July (before the arrest warrants were issued, but after they had already been announced), in what was, quite genuinely, one of the lowest points in humanity’s entire history, when, sickeningly, he was greeted as the greatest human being who ever existed, a travesty akin to Congress welcoming Hitler in 1942 as he implemented the “Final Solution.”

Moreover, as the noose tightens on Netanyahu and Gallant, it is reasonable to expect that other Israeli officials will be implicated, and that the web of complicity will extend to the leaders of other countries who have recklessly and deliberately ignored the requirements of international law in order to defend Israel — and eventually, we must hope, all those who acted as cheerleaders for it.

This is especially so as more and more organizations have been publishing reports confirming Israel’s atrocities, building on the momentum of the ICC arrest warrants and the ICJ opinion, as well as other UN opinions, including an important report by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, which I mentioned above and analyzed here and here, and an extraordinary ICJ opinion in July, which concluded that Israel’s entire presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory is illegal, ordered Israel to withdraw, to dismantle its settlements, and to pay reparations, and also warned other countries “not to render aid or assistance” to Israel in any way with regard to its continued presence.

In the last month, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have both published significant reports, with Amnesty concluding that its research has established that Israel “has committed and is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip”, having “carried out acts prohibited under the Genocide Convention, with the specific intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza”, including “killings, causing serious bodily or mental harm and deliberately inflicting on Palestinians in Gaza conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction.”

Human Rights Watch, meanwhile focused on water supplies, and concluded that the Israeli authorities “have deliberately inflicted conditions of life calculated to bring about the destruction of part of the population in Gaza by intentionally depriving Palestinian civilians there of adequate access to water, most likely resulting in thousands of deaths”, and, in doing so, “are responsible for the crime against humanity of extermination and for acts of genocide.”

Perhaps some might think that Israel is being singled out for inappropriate punishment. After all, atrocities are also taking place elsewhere in the world — notably in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo — but these, while truly horrific, are not celebrated and encouraged daily via politicians in the Knesset, gleeful pundits on Israeli TV shows, pop stars topping the charts with songs celebrating the genocide of the Palestinians, messianic settlers obsessed with ethnic cleansing, and smiling genocidal soldiers filming and photographing their war crimes in Gaza and posting them on social media for the whole world to see.

More troubling, for those of us in the west, Israel’s crimes, unlike atrocities taking place elsewhere, are still actively being denied by our political leaders, and whitewashed or sidelined in the mainstream media by highly-placed supporters of Israel. Disturbingly, most western leaders have spent the last 450 days openly revealing that they prioritize Israel above their own countries’ interests, and are engaged in all manner of troubling authoritarian measures to suppress all dissent, and, even, in the most depraved cases, to make citizenship dependent on pledging support to Israel.

Sadly, none of us can do anything to bring this genocide to an end, even after 450 days, but we can continue to call for accountability, and to fight back, in whatever ways we can, against those who, through the old-fashioned corruption of lobbying, but also through an alarming identification with the most malignant enthusiasts for genocide to have embedded themselves in western societies in most of our lifetimes, are hell-bent on dragging us down, with Israel, into an apparently bottomless moral abyss.

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Andy Worthington is a freelance investigative journalist, activist, author, photographer (of an ongoing photo-journalism project, ‘The State of London’), film-maker and singer-songwriter (the lead singer and main songwriter for the London-based band The Four Fathers, whose music is available via Bandcamp). He is the co-founder of the Close Guantánamo campaign (see the ongoing photo campaign here) and the successful We Stand With Shaker campaign of 2014-15, and the author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison and of two other books: Stonehenge: Celebration and Subversion and The Battle of the Beanfield. He is also the co-director (with Polly Nash) of the documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (available on DVD here, or you can watch it online here, via the production company Spectacle, for £2.50).

In 2017, Andy became very involved in housing issues. He is the narrator of the documentary film, ‘Concrete Soldiers UK’, about the destruction of council estates, and the inspiring resistance of residents, he wrote a song ‘Grenfell’, in the aftermath of the entirely preventable fire in June 2017 that killed over 70 people, and, in 2018, he was part of the occupation of the Old Tidemill Wildlife Garden in Deptford, to try to prevent its destruction — and that of 16 structurally sound council flats next door — by Lewisham Council and Peabody.

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