Medical evacuees from Gaza will now be allowed to go through the previously closed Rafah border crossing into Egypt. Ambulances and 150 hospitals are ready to treat the wounded, many of whom are now permanently disabled.
In this paper, I read about a mother, Rajaa Abu Mustafa, whose 17-year-old son, Mohamed, was shot and blinded in one eye while he tried to get food from aid trucks. He is one of 20,000 children and adults who desperately need expert medical care. Israel’s control of the crossing means that until now, it has decided who gets that care and who doesn’t.
At least they are alive. After years of denying the number of fatalities recorded by Hamas’s health ministry, last week, Israeli military chiefs now accept its figure of 72,000. The disappeared are presumed dead. But they are not yet counted.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his obliging Western allies have always discredited Palestinian sources. In October 2023, Joe Biden brazenly revealed his naked prejudice: “I’m sure innocents have been killed, and it’s the price of waging a war. But I have no confidence in the number that the Palestinians are using.”
Last month, the indefatigable UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese tweeted: “Not sure the magnitude of this is fully understood: Israel has wiped out 2,700 families in Gaza, leaving 6,000+ people as the sole survivors of entire bloodlines. This is the result of deliberate policy, pursued with full knowledge of its effects. This is not war. It is genocide.”
I believe the peace deal last October was largely a sham. According to the Hamas-run Ministry of Health, since the ceasefire, 414 Palestinians have been killed, while over 1000 have been injured.
Settlers in the West Bank are violently attacking Palestinians, grabbing their lands and homes. The Israeli state is a partner in those crimes. In the village of Sebastia, Mahmud Azam, the mayor, was notified that the Israeli authorities were seizing an archaeological site near the village. He is devastated: “It is an aggression against Palestinian landowners, against olive trees… it is a violation of the history and heritage of Palestine.”
The West Bank is not run by Hamas. Israel has broken international laws here for decades. It does not respect peace deals, national borders or the human rights of Arabs.
Since the start of the conflict in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army has killed around 1,700 medical workers and detained hundreds more. No wonder groups like Amnesty International have called it a genocide.
Released Palestinian male prisoners have physical evidence of horrific rapes with instruments. Families still don’t have safe spaces to live; food is scarce and winter is killing the fragile. Starmer has recognised a Palestinian state. A meaningless gesture. What kind of state can survive this level of violent suppression, dehumanisation and deprivation?
Israel’s armoury, methods and reach indicate to me that it wants to push the Palestinians out and colonise their land.
Supporters of Palestinians are losing heart. But Palestinians themselves remain incredibly focused and remarkably resilient.
On Sunday night, I went to Seeds of Solidarity, an event at the Savoy hotel organised by Health Workers 4 Palestine, an arts-led, pro-female initiative to raise money to train Palestinian medics to eventually replace those killed in recent years. With support for Palestine quasi-criminalised in Britain, I’m glad to say no police stormed the place. Actors and TV personalities showed up. Several ambassadors, too. Palestinian artists and filmmakers spoke eloquently. Artworks were bought in an auction. Each table had a centrepiece of olive branches.
The speeches stirred us all. Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah, a British-Palestinian reconstructive surgeon, mourned dead health care workers who were specially targeted. Surgeon Dr Victoria Rose, a Londoner, described the blast injuries she’s been treating in Gaza in a clear, steady voice.
I asked some of the elegant Palestinian guests how they carry on. One beautiful artist replied: “We can’t be afraid. Can’t be broken. Our history has made us this way.”
Violated Palestinians, I learnt that night, will keep on fighting for their rights and land. And in the words of Maya Angelou, whatever pain they go through, they will rise, like the air.
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