Bulletin No41 Decembre 2023 The genocide continues
The fighting continues in the Gaza Strip as well as the massacre of civilian populations. Thus, the Zionist army has just ordered the Palestinians to evacuate part of the town of Khan Younes while fighting continues in the town. The inhabitants of Khan Younes can only crowd together with hundreds of thousands of others in Rafah, towards the Egyptian border.
The UN continues tirelessly to denounce Israeli crimes, but remains totally powerless. Thus, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights is calling for the opening of an investigation by Israel into “ the possible commission of a war crime ” by its armed forces in Gaza. In a press release dated Wednesday, December 20, this UN agency said it had received “ disturbing information ” concerning the death of “ eleven unarmed Palestinian men ” in Gaza City. They died Tuesday evening during an intervention by the Israeli army in a residential building in the city where several families were sheltering.
Israeli soldiers “ allegedly separated the men from the women and children, then shot and killed at least eleven men (…) in front of their family members ,” according to testimonies broadcast by the EuroMed human rights observatory. man. The UN has asked the Zionist state to carry out an investigation, we demand that it be carried out.
The war has caused immense destruction in the Gaza Strip, most hospitals are out of service and 1.9 million people, or 85% of the population, have fled their homes, according to the UN. “The assault by the Israeli occupying forces against the health system in Gaza is taking the most sadistic forms ,” said Francesca Albanese, the United Nations rapporteur on the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territories. “Hospitals and medical staff are sacred ,” she added, denouncing a “senseless war against the population of Gaza . ”
The Zionist state enjoys total impunity
We have widely documented the reasons for the unconditional support of the USA for the Zionist apartheid state, the latest episode is reflected in the procrastination of the UN Security Council, which postponed Wednesday, December 20, for the third time, the putting to vote on a resolution from the United Arab Emirates. So that the representatives of US imperialism do not veto, we went from a request for a ceasefire to a humanitarian pause. But that doesn't seem to be enough for Uncle Sam.
Catherine Colonna, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, visited Lebanon and Palestine. In Lebanon, it served the Zionist state by demanding the withdrawal of Hezbollah from the border area, in vain. Then, in Israel, she finds that Netanyahu and his friends only want to discuss “the destruction of Hamas.” Back in France, she explains that “ in the way the country exercises its right to defend itself, to protect its population and to fight against terrorism, we have a difference of point of view with Israel. ". While the deaths multiply, Madame Colonna discusses her divergence. And what does she do? Nothing ! No pressure on Israel! Vague announcements on sanctions against Zionist settlers in the West Bank, a request for an explanation for the assassination of a French diplomat, who had also asked to be repatriated, a request to which the Zionist state has still not responded. answered, three little turns and then leaves!!!
Israel's war aims to annex all of Palestine
The rhetoric of Netanyahu and his allies increasingly includes talk of “return to Gaza.”
In 2005, under the government of Ariel Sharon, a “disengagement” plan was put in place. Although he had been a key ally of the settler movement, Sharon ordered the destruction of the Gush Katif settlement bloc in the Gaza Strip as well as four other settlements in the northern West Bank. His motivations are simple: the annexation of all of Palestine seems dangerous to him for demographic reasons, the goal is therefore to expel as many Israeli Arabs as possible into the occupied territories and to repatriate the settlers to Israel's own territory. . The “disengagement” constitutes a profound trauma within the Israeli nationalist camp. It is seen as a great betrayal of the Prime Minister and a mistake to be corrected.
Since October 26, the Israeli ground operation in Gaza appears to offer the opportunity. Several government ministers are calling for “ taking advantage of the opportunity ” to conquer and occupy the area, while erecting new settlements there, with the support of a large part of Israeli society.
A few months ago, the Zionist Parliament, the Knesset, offered this legal possibility. On March 21, MPs voted for a law ending the disengagement plan, paving the way for the reconstruction of settlements in the areas concerned: the Gaza Strip and the four settlements in the West Bank. While the authorization to “ return to Gaza ” seemed purely symbolic, Orit Strock, Minister of National Missions, declared the same day to a radical right media outlet: “The return to the Gaza Strip will involve many victims, unfortunately [ …], but there is no doubt that ultimately it is part of the land of Israel and that a day will come when we will return to it. ". Now the Zionists think they have the opportunity.
The expansion of colonization is not limited to the Gaza Strip, but also concerns the West Bank. Bezalel Smotrich, finance minister, called for “learning lessons from the events of October 7” and applying them to the West Bank by creating “Arab-free security zones” around each settlement. In other words, to expand their territory. The settlers and the army are implementing Smotrich's demand to the letter by threatening the Palestinians with weapons, forcing them to leave their homes, causing the death of 243 people.
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir is taking advantage of the anxiety felt by Israelis to carry out several projects, including the mass distribution of weapons to Israeli citizens. In addition to these distributions, Ben Gvir plans to create 700 “ ready units ”, made up of citizens with weapons and ready to react in the event of an emergency.
In addition, the Zionist state police control the internet access of Israeli Arabs and make a large number of arrests for each share, publication or even a simple like expressing solidarity with Gazans or criticism of government policy. . In this context, oppression against them continues to increase, while any expression of solidarity with Gazans is considered a betrayal against the state.
Our party reaffirms its solidarity with the national liberation struggle led by the Palestinian people to end Zionist colonial aggression. He reaffirms his position for a Palestinian state and the right of return. France must stop its policy of support for Israel by severing its diplomatic relations with the colonial and apartheid state!