By Dylan Vernon, Time Come (special) #14, 8 October 2024.
Yesterday, on the anniversary of 7 October 2023 that sparked the worst phase of the resistance to the Israeli occupation of Palestine since the Nakba, I re-read my post on Palestine of 25 October 2023. I had titled it “Campaign of Genocide in Palestine: Why Belizeans Should Care.” At that time 5,791 Palestinians had been killed by Israeli bombardment. Today the number killed is seven times that: over 41,000,
However, while much has changed in these twelve months in terms of deaths, injuries, the deepening of the genocide, the utter destruction of Gaza and the expansion of the war by Israel, much has also remained the same. This is because the actions of Israel since 7 October, 2023 have only been an escalation of its 76 years of occupying Palestine, taking more Palestinian land, expelling more Palestinian people, apartheid and genocide. Nations in the West continue to be complicit. The images and the numbers are horrific and our hearts ache for humanity.
After Hamas killed 1,139 Israelis and took 251 as hostages on that October 7, Israel has since killed 41,909 Palestinians of whom 16,891 are children, injured over 97,000 others, killed 174 journalists and 222 UN staff with impunity.… Read the rest...