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Monday’s massacre of 20 Palestinians, including four journalists, in two successive and direct Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis was the latest of hundreds, if not thousands, of war crimes committed by Israel in Gaza in the past 22 months. Aside from everything else, the time has come for the world to take action against Israel and not remain complacent. In the absence of a strong and unanimous UN Security Council resolution to invoke Chapter VII of the UN Charter, the only remaining option is for individual countries to impose sanctions on Israel in a bid to rein it in and stop its genocidal war in Gaza.
The world demands it. There was a wave of protests across the globe on Saturday and Sunday denouncing Israel and calling for sanctions to be imposed. A few days before, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification had officially declared famine in Gaza City and surrounding areas, attributing it to Israel’s dismantling of aid distribution systems and unlawful blockades on food, water, fuel and medical supplies. And yet Israel went ahead with an outrageous plan to occupy and destroy the city, forcing those who would miraculously survive the bombing and starvation to become displaced yet again.
