Israel’s allies see evidence of war crimes in Gaza that develop

Two years ago, Hamas placed the ending touches to his plan to attack Israel. In Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu believed that Palestinians were a problem that should be governed. The real threat, he insisted, was Iran.

Netanyahu’s rhetoric opposed Hamas was boundless, but he also allowed Qatar to transfer money to gas. This gave him room for his true priorities in foreign policy – encountering Iran and finding a way to normalize relations with Saudi Arabia.

In Washington, then -President Joe Biden and his administration believe that they are close to a deal between the Saudi and the Israelis.

Everything was a series of illusions.

Netanyahu refused to establish an investigation to examine the mistakes he made with his army and security chiefs, which allowed Hamas to attack with such a deadly effect on October 7, 2023.

The conflict between the centuries between Jews and Arabs to control the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean is unresolved, diving, and on the way to explode at a war that seems as subsequent as its other sights in 1948 and 1967.

The Middle East has been transformed since October 7, and almost two years in the war, the conflict in Gaza is at another fold point.

It was a difficult war for journalists to report.

They were surprised on October 7, when Hamas attacked and since then Israel banned Gaza international journalists from reporting freely. Palestinian journalists inside the tape have done a valiant job and nearly 200 have been killed, doing their job.

But the key facts are clear. Hamas committed a series of war crimes in the attacks, which began on October 7, killing 1,200 people, mainly Israeli civilians. Hamas took 251 hostages, of whom maybe 20 who are still held inside the gas are thought to be alive.

And there is clear evidence that Israel has committed a series of war crimes since then.

The list of Israel involves the starvation of Gaza’s civilians, the inability to protect them during military operations in which the Israeli forces killed tens of thousands of innocents, and the trouble -free destruction of entire cities in a way that is not proportional to the military risk facing Israel.

Netanyahu and his former Minister of Defense are subject to arrest warrant orders issued by the International Criminal Court. They insist on their innocence.

Israel has also condemned a legal trial of the International Court of Justice, which claims to be a genocide against the Palestinians. Israel denies the allegations and claims to be anti -Semitic “blood slander”.

Israel runs out of friends. The allies who gathered around after Hamas’ attacks on October 7 have lost patience with Israel’s behavior in Gaza.

Even Israel’s most important ally, Donald Trump, reports that he loses patience with Netanyahu after being surprised when the Israeli leader ordered the bombing of Damascus – attacking the new Syria regime that Trump admitted and encouraged.

Other Western allies of Israel have exhausted patience months ago.

Another joint statement condemning Israel’s actions was signed on July 21 by foreign ministers from the United Kingdom, much of the European Union, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. They used strong words to describe civil suffering in Gaza and Failed and Deadly Aid Distribution System Managed by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) What Israel introduced to replace the tried and reliable methods used by the UN and the leading global help groups.

“The suffering of civilians in gas has reached new depths,”. said in the statementS

“The model of supplying the help of the Israeli government is dangerous, nourishes instability and deprives gazan of human dignity. We condemn the drip feeding of the help and the inhuman murder of civilians, including children, striving to meet their most basic needs of water and food.

“The Israeli Government’s refusal for the civilian’s basic humanitarian aid is unacceptable. Israel must comply with its obligations under international humanitarian law.”

David Lami, the UK’s foreign secretary, followed the joint statement with one of his own, using a similar language in the House of Westminster.

It was not enough Labor MPs who wanted strong words to be supported by strong actions. One told me that there was a “rage” in the government’s reluctance to act more resources. Up into their program is the recognition of a Palestinian state, which has already been carried out by the majority of members of the United Nations. The United Kingdom and France have discussed this together, but so far they seem to believe that time is not right.

Israel’s parliament, known as Knesset, is only a few days away from its summer, which will continue until October. This means that Benjamin Netanyahu will be interrupted by the threat of vote without confidence by extremist nationalists in his coalition, which opposes the cessation of fire in the gas. His unwillingness to negotiate a truce is the result of their threats to leave their government. If Netanyahu lost power in the election, his day to read his mistakes from October 7 – as well as the end of his long -standing corruption process – would compete with him.

The cessation of the fire seems more possible, the chance of survival for the civilians of the gas and for the Israeli hostages, who have been Hamas prisoners for so long.

None of this means that the conflict will end. The war brought him to new depths. But if there is an end to fire, there will be another chance of going from murder to diplomacy.

Tonight I will participate in a debate on the BBC Today program, exploring what it will take to end this war.

“What can stop Gaza’s war?” The question of today’s Radio 4 and BBC Sounds debate tonight at 20:00, presented by Nick Robinson. It will also be broadcast live to Iplayer and the BBC News Website.