TheAltWorld No international reaction to Israel’s admission of killing over 70,000 in Gaza
The international community ought to be acknowledged for its role in blotting out the meaning of genocide since October 2023. Without global complicity, the Geneva Convention’s definition of genocide would have retained its relevance. Instead, as Israel killed Palestinians, world leaders dismissed Palestinian voices calling out the genocide. What veneer would have suited Israel better for its constant denial of its kill toll in Gaza?
As diplomats celebrated the ceasefire announcement, violated hundreds of times since by Israel, genocide was no longer the international community’s concern. The ceasefire cancelled genocide in diplomatic circles. When the UN Security Council passed the resolution which granted the US exclusive dominance over Gaza, the ceasefire was no longer a burden to observe. As talk turns towards the second phase of the US 20-point plan for Gaza, Israel found no difficulty in admitting that it had killed over 70,000 Palestinians in Gaza, after over two years of denying the statistics issued by Gaza’s Health Ministry.
The admission puts to shame the entire international community and its institutions, which are functioning erroneously on purpose. While Israel denies genocide, the international community and its institutions spring into action by protecting the fabricated security narrative and treating even a humanitarian pause like a security concern. The media follows suit, disputing visual evidence with the usual Israeli statement that it is, purportedly acting in accordance with international law. But nowhere in international law is it considered a human right to burn people alive, or blast them to pieces.
The International Court of Justice follows its own bureaucratic trajectory, becoming a mockery of itself. Likewise, the UN Security Council, which votes the international community out of a diplomatic process to prompt a more accelerated version rooted in real estate.
The bottom line was always the erasure of the Palestinian people. Now that Israel has admitted its role, which is tantamount to an admission of genocide, what happens from here?
Nothing, of course, because this news snippet is old news in a way. The kill toll was being updated regularly, and Israel denied it regularly, so much that disputing the statistics became more important than the actual genocide and its ramifications on Palestinians in Gaza. The seamless process that allowed Israel’s earlier denials now allow its admission. Israel controls the pace and the world follows, be it the UN or the media.
As attention shifts to real estate development in Gaza, or at least the concept of it, Israel admitting it killed 70,000 fits right into the desired erasure of Palestinians and into the ultimate plans of the Board of Peace. Without Palestinians, the area is clear for exploitation. Israel admitting its kill toll is similar to saying a phase has been implemented. Who will speak up to illustrate that without genocide, the US would not be talking real estate in Gaza? Israel denied genocide only until it was safe to admit it, and that safety was created by the international community and the way it keeps moving forward while intentionally not looking back. But genocide, like colonialism, leaves a trail, and the entire world knows where it leads to.
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