By Andrea Tucci,
A few days ago the Israeli army opened fire without warning, killing 15 sanitary workers, some of whom were also doctors. Their bodies were later unearthed from a grave, some with their hands or legs tied, executed still in uniform, holding their radios, gloves and medical kits.
Israel in response still lied. Its foreign minister told the world the ambulances were unmarked and “suspicious”, suggesting the Israeli attack was justified, but footage of the final moments showed the ambulances were clearly marked, with lights flashing and medical vests visible. There was no sign of any threat, no crossfire, no ambiguity, only a deliberate massacre.
As the world tried to comprehend that horror from the Israeli soldiers, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Hungary declared: “ We fight this battle against barbarism … we are fighting a battle for the future of our common civilisation “our Judeo-Christian civilisation.”
The truth is that what Israel is waging in Gaza is not war but It is the systematic destruction of anything that has life.
More than 1.000 health and medical professionals have been killed since October 2023, including dozens from the Palestine Red Crescent Society.
More than 400 aid workers have been killed in Gaza, including at least 280 UNRWA staff. Hospitals have been obliterated and ambulances torn apart, and doctors,while trying to save lives, have been arrested, tortured, raped, and executed.
There are no more Red Lines , not even for doctors, women and children.
Palestinian medics say their uniforms once symbols sacred are now treated as targets.
Netanyahu does not just destroy homes, mosques, churches and schools, he destroys the means to survive and If the bombs don’t kill, then thirst, hunger, or untreated wounds will.
More than 55.000 Palestinians have been killed, and entire neighbourhoods have been wiped out. More than 1.9 million people have been displaced, with many later bombed in their tents.
Since the so-called ceasefire was broken, the horror has reached new depths. Food is gone, fuel has vanished, and water plants have been Blown up, and Gaza’s bakeries have collapsed. Families drink sewage and eat animal feed.
This is Israel’s war for “CIVILIZATION”.
Israel has trampled every line of law, any possible ethics . No zone is safe, no hospital spared, no child… This is not a conflict; it is annihilation, unbound.
For decades, the image of the “violent Palestinian” has been broadcast to the world and Israel casts itself as a beacon of democracy, a bastion of civility under siege.
The truth is what Netanyahu and his ministers had built is a regime that executes medics, buries in mass graves, shoots children.
It is a fact: many media outlets, in Europe and beyond, still avoid calling this by its true name, Genocide, for fear of being accused of being “too pro-Palestinian.”
But the truth is that we can no longer speak of genocide alone, what we are witnessing is a systematic extermination of an entire population.
In the face of the atrocities that strike Gaza every day, can we truly remain passive spectators?
Can we really do nothing but look the other way?
And when, one day, future generations ask us: You were there and you did nothing to stop this? What will we say?
Yes, the feeling of powerlessness is real, but it can become a force. A force that drives action,and boycott can be one of the most effective, peaceful, and civil tools against those who fuel and profit from this violence.
Certainly each of us can do something to expose the companies that profit from war and occupation, or that have economic interests in the occupied territories of the West Bank.
We can start, for example, by refusing to buy their products and services,by publicly denouncing, with verified sources, the ties between these companies and the Israeli military system,and by putting pressure on universities, municipalities, and public institutions in order to end all forms of collaboration with them.
Now the time has come for all of us to make Conscious choices, Ethical choices, Civil choices.
