Gaza has suffered a ‘September 11’ every day for 385 days now

Alameen Templeton

Does anyone remember September 11 and does anyone care? It don’t. I won’t. I refuse.

Thanks to America, Gaza has endured a September 11, and worse, every single day for 385 days now. The US-led genocide has murdered at least 42 847 civilians. Some are in graves, another 11 000 missing bodies are trapped beneath the rubble while others just rot on roadsides.

Israel, the scorpion writhing in menacing terror at the point of a US missile, is doing America’s dirty work.

‘Die now, or starve to death’

Do I remember September 11, when just yesterday the Israelis rained down US death on Jabalia, half of which has been wiped clear of all humans, its schools burned and its men kidnapped?

Those who aren’t killed will starve to death, Israel has warned to nodding US approval under a 30-day green light to get the job done.

The Zionists, the US and Israel, have killed three more journalists and have attacked Kamal Adwan Hospital, killing children in the ICU, and cutting communications with the outside world. They’re now closing in on the rest of the partly functioning hospitals left in the north of Gaza.

Middle East Eye reports they “detained hundreds of staff, patients and displaced people during a raid on Gaza’s Kamal Adwan hospital, the last functioning hospital in northern Gaza, the Palestinian health ministry said on Friday.

“Israeli troops were ‘detaining hundreds of patients, medical staff and some displaced individuals from neighbouring areas who sought refuge’, the health ministry said.

“WHO chief Tedros Ghebreyesus has said that the organisation has ‘lost touch’ with staff at the hospital.”

No right to return

Their stormroopers are going school to school in Jabalia and nearby areas to forcibly remove unarmed, starved and besieged Palestinian civilians from their homes as the genocidal campaign to ethnically cleanse north Gaza nears its third week.

Under the cover of heavy air strikes and artillery shelling with US armaments and jets, they directly and systematically attack homes and buildings used as shelters by displaced families, forcing everyone out at gunpoint, MEE reports.

The buildings, including UN schools and houses, are blown up or burned by Israeli soldiers to prevent people from returning.

The US and Israel are hoping, by turning their forces on civilians, Hamas is going to surrender.

“Local reporters estimate nearly of half of north Gaza, which was home to over 1m people before the war, have been removed from their homes so far, warning the rest could face a similar fate in coming days,” MEE reports.

Yahya, another resident currently trapped inside the Jabalia refugee camp, told MEE people are exhausted and conditions are unbearable.

‘No other way’

“The entire area around me is destroyed. Homes, cars and even people. Most of them are wounded. Each one has an injury in his arm, leg, head or eye,” Yahya said.

But he and thousands of other residents have made their peace and will not leave.

“I will only leave Jabalia a dead body, no other way,” he told MEE via phone as artillery shelling rang out in the background.

Dr Mohammed Obeid, a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) orthopaedic surgeon who is at the Kamal Adwan hospital, described the situation inside the hospital as “disastrous”.

In a testimony sent to MSF, he said medical teams can’t reach the bodies of those killed and can’t save the wounded.

“We don’t have the means to treat the injured. We don’t have medical staff or surgical equipment,” Dr Obeid said.

“There is death in all colours and forms in Kamal Adwan hospital. The artillery didn’t stop. The planes didn’t stop. The drones didn’t stop.”