[Blog] Gaza: A call to all 192 STATES of the planet, including Mauritius, to pressurize Israel to end this genocide, NOW

Destruction of humanity through wars, genocides, epidemics, famines, natural catastrophes, technology, nuclear bombs, and soon through climate change and global warming if our planet’s reaction fails to control these.

God help us! We cannot, as humans, be indifferent and do nothing while this genocide is happening.

50,000 Palestinians have been killed since October 2021, including over 20,000 women and children.

The government of Israel today continues its attempted genocide against the Palestinians. This is A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY, FOR WHICH Israel, its PM NETANYAHU, and Government WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE—by making people move as soon as they settle, bombing and destroying all schools, hospitals, and recently the one fertility clinic, and by starving the 2-million-strong population. And today, they have arranged to frighten all inhabitants of GAZA with the destruction of their means of life and death if they do not move elsewhere, as per Trump’s plan.

The Arab states of Qatar, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and others, the European Union, the USA, India, and China, with the full backing of the UNITED NATIONS, CAN NOW IMPOSE the second phase of the peace plan: release ALL Israeli hostages, release ALL Palestinian POLITICAL PRISONERS, START THE RETREAT of Israel from Gaza, so then the RECONSTRUCTION CAN BEGIN! People can stop being assassinated and start rebuilding their habitats and lives.

If you had to forecast which leader of any of the 194 countries of the world could be the new 21st-century HITLER, would you have thought of the Jewish leader of Israel?

Brazil’s president, Lula da Silva, speaking at the 37th African Union Summit, compared Israel’s actions in the war against Hamas to the Holocaust, in which Nazis killed six million Jews. “What is happening in the Gaza Strip with the Palestinian people has no parallel in other historical moments,” but “it did exist when Hitler decided to kill the Jews.” The UN Security Council, the ICJ, the EU, Egypt, and other Arab states voiced their concern about a possible coming genocide of the people of Gaza by Israel. After almost 50,000 deaths, nothing is being done. Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders pursue their elimination policy.

Hitler gave as a reason the need for more space for his people (Lebensraum). Israel specifically wants the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza—if necessary, by first destroying all housing infrastructure, hospitals, schools, water, and food supplies, and on 13th March 2025, THE ONLY FERTILITY CLINIC IN GAZA, thereby starting the elimination of the people of Gaza—men, women, and children.

With the first phase of the agreement between HAMAS and ISRAEL at this historical moment in mid-January 2025, we saw a possible end to an attempted genocide and, hopefully, the start of the rebuilding of a nation.

Then, last week, bombardment and further clear genocidal acts against the Palestinians started again. By Israel, with American arms, American money, and the blessing of their President DT.

LET US REMIND OURSELVES AGAIN AS TO WHAT A GENOCIDE IS. An absolute crime against humanity. It is the deliberate and systematic destruction, completely or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group. It is inhuman, immoral, illegal, and completely unacceptable. It involves violence against people simply because of their differences.

•    1945: After Nazi Germans exterminated more than five million Jews during WWII, from 1941 to 1945, the Jewish people settled in Palestine and built a strong, new state of Israel.

•    1993: After the Hutus massacred 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda in 1993, the Tutsis rebuilt Rwanda as one of the cleanest and best-run African states.

•    2025: After the attempted genocide by Israel of the Palestinian people in Gaza, from 1948 till now, but mainly during the last 15 months when Israel destroyed most schools, most hospitals, most housing, most roads, most production systems, and attempted to starve the population, Gaza/Palestine can now reconstruct and rebuild their homeland.

Now we witness the end of the continued non-recognition of Palestine by Israel. The ‘imprisonment’ of the Palestinian people till today, denied return to their land, denied the two-state solution—one being an independent Palestine. A process of independence for Palestine, Gaza, and the West Bank. A difficult process that needs the support of all states of the REGION AND OF THE WORLD. A process that Hamas can help by dissolving itself under its present armed forces constitution and reforming itself as, for example, the PPP (Palestine Political Party), devoted entirely to rebuilding Palestine and its efficient governance.

We mourn the 50,000 Palestinians, including 20,000 WOMEN and CHILDREN killed in the last 24 months, also more than 100,000 people injured, and the more than 12,000 missing. We also mourn the toll on Israelis killed, numbering 1,200. And we are grateful for the release of hostages held by Hamas, as well as political prisoners from Israeli jails, which started on 19th January and is to be followed for the next six weeks. We witness the 10,000+ Palestinians going on foot, donkey carriages, lorries, vans, and cars back to their villages or towns to see their houses—in 80% of cases, destroyed and reduced to rubble by Israeli bombs and missiles. A sad tragedy of human wickedness.

Now, of course, the UN agencies and all nations in the area (Egypt, Doha, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and others) as well as those outside, are starting a huge help movement to feed the Gaza people (reduced to starvation by Israel in its genocide attempt) and start the reconstruction of habitats, schools, hospitals, production and commercial structures, roads, and communications, etc. In fact, to rebuild all.

All states must now support and indeed put pressure on Israel and Hamas FOR A CEASEFIRE NOW and fully implement the ceasefire and agreement. Then the rebuilding of Gaza can start in earnest.

Dr. Michael Atchia

(Past Programme Director, United Nations)

mklatchia@intnet.mu

25th March 2025