Slander and Threats Won’t Stop the Protests Against Israel’s War on Gaza
As the Israeli military uses ever more violence against Gaza’s civilian population, there have been massive demonstrations calling for a cease-fire. The protesters are taking a stand for basic human solidarity against the moral bankruptcy of Western leaders.
Demonstration demanding a cease-fire in Gaza in London, October 28, 2023. (Guy Smallman / Getty Images)
On the last day of October, Israel bombed the densely populated Jabalia refugee camp north of Gaza City, demolishing several apartment blocks and leaving behind huge craters amidst the rubble. Medical personnel at Gaza’s Indonesian Hospital said that the bombing killed at least fifty people — a death toll that is certain to rise as more bodies are recovered — and wounded hundreds more.
Britain’s Channel 4 News broadcast the horrifying scenes inside the hospital as doctors struggled to cope with the carnage. One eyewitness described the aftermath of the bombing to CNN:
Children were carrying other injured children and running, with grey dust filling the air. Bodies were hanging on the rubble, many of them unrecognized. Some were bleeding and others were burnt.
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