Dor more than two months now, what has become a macabre routine has been underway in Gaza. The dead add to the dead, the injured to the injured and the destruction to the destruction without us being able to see the end. By opposing their veto, on December 8, to a draft resolution of the UN Security Council in favor of a “immediate humanitarian ceasefire”, the United States, isolated, ensured that the punishment inflicted by Israel on an entire population continued. Their humanity will wait.
After the massacres perpetrated by Hamas against Israeli civilians on October 7, the Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant, estimated that the Jewish state was facing “human animals” and that he was going ” Act in consequence “. We are there more than ever. The right to defend oneself has become the right to destroy everything.
The results of the strategy aimed at eradicating the Islamist militia at any cost are before the eyes of anyone who cares to see it: death everywhere, dying hospitals, destitution and wandering of hundreds of thousands of people. Palestinians pushed like cattle by Israeli injunctions from one part of Gaza to another, then to a third. The cries of alarm from the heads of the United Nations agencies on the ground, who are deploying, despite Israeli contempt, admirable efforts to prevent chaos from adding to the desolation, resonate in the void.
The reflection of its drift
This strategy has another dramatic consequence: officially presented as a priority, the releases of hostages captured by Hamas on October 7 ceased as soon as the truce negotiated through Qatar ended on October 1.er December. The tons of bombs once again dumped at an astonishing rate on a narrow strip of land which is in its fifth war in less than fifteen years give no reason for hope.
This unprecedented carnage is all the less justifiable as the results obtained so far are still far from the stated objective, especially in the case of a militia regularly decimated without the Israeli army having ever succeeded. to permanently silence it.
This carnage is all the more unbearable since two months after the start of this military campaign, the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, remains unable to explain what Israel will do once it has decided to end the fighting so that Gaza can heal its wounds and so that Hamas does not rise from its ashes.
That Israel is lost in this war is, unfortunately, not a surprise as it is a reflection of its drift. The Hebrew State was already tearing itself apart before October 7 over the basis of its social contract: the place of law, under the assaults of an ultranationalist and messianic current which has been gnawing at it for more than half a century. That the United States does not protect him against himself is a moral fault whose devastating effects they will not be able to avoid.
Their representative at the UN justified the veto of December 8 by ensuring that such a truce “would plant the seeds of a future war”. While the bombs it supplies to Israel continue to plow Gaza without sparing civilians, can Washington believe that these sowing of iron can produce anything other than inextinguishable hatred on this bloodied land?