Israeli troops have killed at least 70 Palestinians and wounded hundreds as they sought aid in Gaza on Tuesday, firing at them with tank shells, machine guns and drones. Those casualties are among the 89 Palestinians killed in attacks across the besieged enclave since dawn.
Israeli soldiers fired at the desperate crowds of aid seekers on Tuesday morning as they gathered along the main eastern road in the southern city of Khan Younis. It was the latest in a sustained wave of carnage since the Israel- and United States-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) launched operations to distribute food in the territory three weeks ago.
Reports indicated more than 300 people have been killed and more than 2,000 wounded while trying to collect aid from the GHF since it launched operations in Gaza on May 26.
Without even trying to invoke the name for any degree of hyperbole, the only thing I can think of to relate this level of obscene, one-sided violence to is stories from the Holocaust. I just genuinely cannot relate this type of thing to anything else.
You don’t have to try to relate it to anything else, it’s been 20 months of a live-streamed Holocaust of mostly children.
They’re doing what the Germans and Japanese did before the creation of concentration death camps. One of the reasons the Germans came up with the industrialized murder machine was because their soldiers were getting all kinds of messed up from shooting and stabbing so many civilians, including children. The camps allowed them to distance themselves from the whole process, while improving how fast they could kill people in larger and larger quantities.