The bombing of the Al-Ahli Hospital, with a death toll of 800 (raising the total death count to more than 4,000 and more than a thousand missing), is a turning point in the Zionist siege of Gaza. It came on top of the bombings carried out since yesterday against the defenseless Gazans who are trying to flee to the south as the Israeli forces themselves demanded. The region’s Arab people exploded with indignation, flooding the streets, mobilizing to Israeli embassies and clashing with the repressive forces of their traitor governments, which had to cancel the summit they had organized with Biden.
Biden is now on his way to Israel, not to “guarantee humanitarian aid” but to support Israel politically and militarily. The message from the powerful to Israel is clear: “kill, but do iso in accordance with established international rules.” In the Middle East, barbarism shows its worst face. The world cannot close its eyes to a State that murders massively, threatens Lebanon with “returning it to the Stone Age” and warns that its revenge has not yet begun. You stand with Palestine or with the genocidaires and fascists.
Tuesday October 17
Abu Obeida of Hamas announced the release of some foreign, non-Israeli hostages, when “conditions on the ground” are met, because they consider them “guests” and have nothing against them. Hamas gives the first proof of life of an Israeli hostage through video. The number of displaced people in the Gaza Strip is around one million. There have been four attacks at the Rafah crossing where thousands of people are gathering, attemting to flee. The siege does not allow humanitarian aid to arrive from Egypt. The occupiers claim to have eliminated the top Hamas leader in Gaza, Ayman Nofal. A bombing killed at least 71 Gazans. Nearly 4,000 Gaza Strip workers are being detained and investigated over their possible assistance to Hamas in last Saturday’s attack.
The WHO denounced the violation of all international humanitarian conventions, calling for the opening of safe health corridors to supply the population with basic health supplies and services. The cancer hospital partially stopped operating due to lack of fuel. If the population does not receive water, they can not only die from the bombing but also from infectious diseases. Food will run out in less than a week. Since Israel does not pump a single drop of drinking water to Gaza, people are drinking contaminated water.
Israel does not seek to defend itself, it aims to leave scorched earth, which is why it threatens Lebanon with punishing it in such a way that it returns to the “Stone Age.” These are not just threats, they want to carry it out. The slaughter of our brothers reached the Al-Ahli Baptist hospital, with more than 800 people murdered “We saw piles of meat and parts of dismembered bodies being loaded into bags due to their large quantity and the horror of the scene resulting from the horrible massacre.”
What happened motivated calls for intense marches in the West Bank. Sirens sound in Upper Galilee. A large explosion was heard between Haifa and Caesarea. All the mosques in Jenin ring out calling for general mobilization and asking young people to go to the areas of contact with the occupation.
The murderers spread false information about the responsibility for the attack on the hospital, but the truth is not only demonstrated in videos, but also by Afkhai Adraei, a Zionist colonel, who stated: “We had warned that the Baptist Hospital and five other hospitals should be evacuated so that the Hamas organization can not use them as shelter.”
Zionists warn that the cost of a ground invasion will be high with many casualties, as they continue preparations to enter Gaza and commit genocide.
A repression began in Jenin that took the life of a little girl with bullets from the Palestinian Authority, amidst heartbreaking cries, demands also grew for Hamas to begin the execution of the 250 hostages in its power and disseminate the images. Clashes broke out in the Wadi al-Joz neighborhood of Jerusalem.
Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, left Jordan without waiting to meet with Biden or the four-nation summit and requested to return to Ramallah immediately. The streets of the West Bank face armed enemies.
Tens of thousands of youth attack the district headquarters in Ramallah and rebel against the Palestinian Authority. Dozens of young people face occupation at the northern Qalqilya checkpoint.
A senior Hamas official declared that the movement is willing to release all civilian hostages within an hour if the siege on Gaza is stopped.
In southern Lebanon there are massive protests demanding military intervention. Merkava tanks collapse on Lebanese border due to Hezbollah attacks.
The Al-Qassam Brigades bomb Tel Aviv. Thousands of Jordanians try to storm the embassy, but the army prevents them. The turn out continues to increase and becomes a massive mobilization that the authorities can no longer control.
The Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Hussein Al-Sheikh, told Al-Arabi Al-Jadeed: “We are holding consultations with Egypt and Jordan to take a position regarding the withdrawal from the summit scheduled for tomorrow with US President Joe Biden.”
Church bells ring in the city of Ramallah with anger and pain for the souls of the people of Gaza. Protesters attack the Israeli consulate in Istanbul. Hebrew media claim that rockets are raining down on Tel Aviv and loud explosions are heard.
While the deaths and aggressive barbarism multiply, the imperialists and their accomplices deploy another arsenal: that of cynicism. The president of the European Commission Ursula Von der Leyen does not hide her support for Israel, she barely banishes it: “The Palestinians should not pay for the barbarity of Hamas.” The EU wants an air bridge from Egypt to bring humanitarian aid.
While the US shows its president “calling meetings and making diplomatic efforts for pacification,” confirming his arrival in Israel on Wednesday the 18th, the Marine Corps Rapid Response Force was deployed with 2,000 troops and the head of the Central Command to provide imperialist support. With complete parsimony, Putin, the murderous invader of Ukraine, announces that he will address the events with Xi due to concerns of a regional war.
The response of the African Union and the Arab League does not exceed the request to prevent a “catastrophe” in Gaza, infinitely behind the Palestinian people who give their lives against the enemy with no weapons other than their own bodies. Iran continues to warn… now with a possible “preventive action” if the attacks continue, it would be carried out by the “Axis of Resistance” that Iran informally leads and also includes Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
The truth is that the irruption of the Arab masses taking to the streets en masse kicked over the political board, it ended up breaking the process of normalization of relations between their governments and Israel, which Biden was traveling to try to save, demonstrating the power they have and how decisive their strength is for the possibility of pushing back and defeating the State of Israel.
