"NOWHERE and no one is safe in Gaza", the director-general of the World Health Organisation Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the United Nations Security Council on Friday. Its members stood in a minute of silence to honour the dead, and, ironically, the UNSC has been standing in silence for 40 days as Israel turns Gaza into a killing field that will put Cambodia to shame.
No, Tedros isn't being an alarmist. We have seen the horrific pictures being broadcast as the massacre is being committed in front of our very eyes: infants, children, women and the elderly.
None had anything to do with the Hamas attack on Oct 7. Hospitals, where the barely living are sent to seek medical treatment, are bombed out of operation by Israel.
This is a premeditated strategy, one hatched in the war rooms of Tel Aviv's Zionist extremists, to ensure that the Palestinians are either killed where they are bombed or die of the injuries at the hospital. The Zionist regime is intent on wiping out the Palestinians from the face of the Earth as some far-right Israeli leaders have occasionally claimed in private and public.
Pictures of dead and injured infants making the rounds around the world are beginning to convince some world leaders that Israel isn't after Hamas, but after all Palestinians, either to massacre them or drive them out of Palestine.
The Zionists in the Tel Aviv cabinet, many of whom are illegal settlers, have made it clear that the latest Israeli invasion would be worse than the catastrophic Nakba of 1948, when tens of thousands of Palestinians were massacred and more than 700,000 were forced to flee by Israeli military and Jewish terrorist groups.
You won't be wrong if you think it is the Holocaust all over again. Only this time, the victims are Palestinians. Stop the massacre of innocent civilians, we tell the world leaders. If you don't, then you are on the wrong side of history.
But it must not just end with the complete halt of Israeli bombardment of Gaza. Those who killed civilians must be arrested, tried and sentenced. Not just in Gaza but also in the West Bank, where armed illegal settlers and Israeli forces have been killing Palestinians every day.
Since the Hamas attack, the killing of Palestinians there has become worse with the Israeli forces taking control of settlements. From UN officials — former and current — to human rights organisations they are all warning of genocide being committed by soldiers and illegal Jewish settlers.
But the trial must not be conducted by a kangaroo court as in the case of Saddam Hussein or by a tribunal set up by the victors or their allies in earlier wars. If this is allowed to happen, then it would be massacre by another name.
Let's not forget the more than a century-old dictum of Chief Justice Lord Hewart: "Justice should not only be done, but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done."
Saddam was hanged for not having any weapons of mass destruction, but those who lied about him having them to go to war with Iraq are strutting the Earth with an innocence they don't possess.
This is certainly not the way to do justice nor to let people "manifestly and undoubtedly" see it being done.