Gaza’s future: a long way to go and a longing to live
JVL Introduction
Written on the day the ceasefire negotiations neared completion, Gaza based writer Malak Hijazi writes with longing of a Gaza that lives, even if it is with the privations people in Gaza experienced long before this most brutal and sustained but there is a long path ahead and while it will be an enormous and long overdue relief for the bombing to stop, the future is uncertain, will Gaza ever heal? .
This moving article sets out some of the difficulties that lie ahead and the fears that ending the bombing will only partially assuage.
Given that the ceasefire has been agreed,(as at c. 5 am GMT today) some in the mainstream are wondering why the National March for Palestine is still going ahead. This article shows why: there is much work to be done, but “The people of Gaza need more than words of solidarity. We need meaningful global action to support reconstruction and ensure accountability”.
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This article was originally published by The Electronic Intifada on Wed 15 Jan 2025. Read the original here.
This will not end with the last airstrike
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Very moving and a clear look at the reality of what is left in Gaza and how difficult it would be to rebuild it. The first that has to happen is a steady stream of life-saving relief for its brave and suffering people. UNRWA must be resinstated. Israel, the US, the UK and the EU states who continued to fund and arm this genocide must be made to pay for its destruction and reconstruction. Anything into the trillions of dollars or pounds, not only for the damage to the physical infrastructure but for people’s lives and mental and physical state wrecked by the genocide and Israel’s expansionism. All of Israel’s government and military must be led accountable for the endless war crimes committed. It looks like the UN should take over the governance of Israel, and the rebuilding of Gaza, with the Palestinians being able to choose whom they want to govern them in free and fair elections. Hamas’ status as a terrorist organisation must be removed as they were the last elected government of Gaza, and is so successfully under incredible odds.
It is Israel that should be designated a state built on terrorism and practicing on the Palestinians since 1948.
meanwhile UK’s Keir Starmer observes that Israelis are “killed” while Palestinians “lose their lives”. Rather trivial like losing their mobile phones. Sahameful that powerful Western countries are happy to witness many decades of Israeli oppression when a show of force could enable change.
How about a ‘Global Coalition’ giving Gaza military guarantees against any future Israeli aggression and if it splits up the UN, so be it. The UN and the world international order needs re-calibrating – an end to the permanent nations status on the UNSC, the UK and France to lose their seats and for the UNSC to be elected by the UNGA based on regional blocks and 2/3’s majority voting. Aggressor nations and accomplices to step back from voting and powers to suspend nations that violate.
The outlook for Palestinians , imprisonment and punishment in a seige , for the sin of being born in Palestine , is being maintained by the biased narratives , and the alliance of interests diverting blame for a bigger crisis onto a demonised group . No one can openly help the victim without becoming a target of hatred , still no solution to the bigger crisis …. Divisive faiths, politics of fear, economics of unsustainable competition , preemptive military capabilities under writing property rights , global governance targeted, traduced and abused by sectional and private motives.