Israeli Military Occupation: Concealing Genocidal Actions After 2 years of Israeli Bombings
August 7, 2025•597 words
“The time to guard against corruption and tyranny, is before they shall have gotten hold on us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold….” - Thomas Jefferson
“We are already in the midst of a catastrophe… Israel is using famine as a weapon of war and that is contrary to international law.” - Josep Borrell
“It is not possible to create a famine by accident.” - Alex de Waal
“Israel made its intentions to starve everyone in Gaza explicit, implemented its plans and predictably created a famine throughout Gaza.” - Michael Fakhri
“The Israeli government is using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare in the occupied Gaza Strip, which is a war crime.” - Omar Shakir
It is the oldest trick in the book of tyranny, letting the wolves guard the henhouse, knowing full well the carnage that follows. The occupation of 2 years of IDF in Gaza proves it all too well. The Israeli occupation of Gaza is not merely a military presence, it is a smokescreen. Behind the armored vehicles and checkpoints lies the quiet work of erasing the evidence, the illegal seizures of land, the calculated starvation, the machinery of ethnic cleansing and genocide. On November 21, 2024, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defence Minister Yoav Gallant on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, obstructing aid, using starvation as a weapon.
These charges are not abstract, they trace directly to the months of March through May 2025, when Israel’s blockade starved Palestinians of Gaza. The International Court of Justice, responding to South Africa’s 2023 genocide case, weighs similar claims. Netanyahu’s argument was the familiar strategy of the guilty, outrage, his cry of antisemitism, calling the charges “hogwash,” while lying openly to international media, denying any starvation at all. But even his supposed allies betrayed his story, President Trump himself admitted there was starvation, stating bluntly, “we can see them, starved.”
Israel’s strategy is to occupy Gaza fully, controlling not just the land but the narrative. War crimes investigators, journalists, and UN officials are kept out under the pretext of “security,” ensuring that no independent eyes find evidence. Amnesty International confirms the ban. Netanyahu hides these restrictions in the narrative of necessity, claiming they pressure Hamas, in reality, IDF kill an entire indigenous people toward extinction.
The United States, despite murmurs of dissent from a few politicians, continues to openly funnel military aid into the conflict, even as American weapons rain down on Gaza. Since October 2023, Gaza’s health authorities have reported over 61,000 adults died, and 19,000 children killed. International observers estimate the true toll exceeds 130,000 Palestinians killed. These are not the numbers of war, they are the numbers of a genocide.
Every missile, every drone strike, every artillery barrage leaves not just rubble but silence, silence where witnesses once stood. Two years into the bombardment, 99% of Gaza’s homes, businesses, schools, universities, and hospitals have been destroyed. Yet Israel presses on, determined to maintain occupation, bombardment, and ethnic cleansing until the map itself forgets Palestine. At this point, the mask is gone, Israel has revealed itself as a rogue ethno-apartheid state, unbound by domestic and international law, unmoved by morality, and unwilling to stop until nothing remains to accuse it.
The Israeli government has no fear of an International Court of Justice because the Trump Administration agrees with Benjamin Netanyahu and the far-right Israeli government, and USA will protect the Israeli government with unconditional love of such tyranny.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-netanyahu-security-cabinet-gaza-israel-war-expansion/