Afrasianet - Yusri Al, Ghoul - What happened in the Gaza Strip threatens not only the Palestinians, but also the entire world order. Leaving the crimes of genocide without holding the occupier accountable does not produce peace, but rather sows the seeds of future wars, for which the whole world will be liable to pay.

After the end of the Second World War and the formation of the League of Nations, which later changed its name to the United Nations, the world gathered in that international body in Manhattan, New York, to work to control the rhythm of any dispute or conflict between states, through the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 and the subsequent two covenants, on civil and political rights, as well as the Covenant on Social, Cultural, Economic and other rights in 1966. 

This is in addition to the numerous international laws that came with the end of that war, especially the Fourth Geneva Convention in 1948, as well as the Additional Protocol to those conventions issued in 1977, and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), which criminalizes acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing, and not the Convention on the Prevention of the Crime of Genocide, specifically Article II.

But the real dilemma that the world faced was the double standards with which the great powers deal, especially the countries that have the right of veto to grant rights to their owners, or to redress grievances and stop harming weak or oppressed peoples and nations, such as the peoples of the Third World. It can be described as less than that. 

Since October 7, 2023, Israel has violated all international rules and laws, starting with Article 33, which calls for the prohibition of collective punishment and all forms of intimidation, to Article 55, which obliges any occupation to provide food and medicine, to Article 147, which classifies intentional killing, torture, and inhuman treatment as a war crime. In addition to Article VII of the Rome Statute of the Criminal Court, which talks about genocide and forced displacement, and then Article VIII, which Condemns the targeting of civilians and civilian property, and many other articles that are too far to delve into.

The important question today is: What did Israel do when it bypassed all these laws? Will this have consequences at the Arab and global levels? How will future generations react to these abuses? 

The occupying "state" has persistently undermined international humanitarian law and trampled on human rights conventions, after launching more than 90,000 airstrikes on an area not exceeding 365 square kilometers, densely populated with a population of more than 2,300,000 people, of whom nearly 60,000 have died so far, 15,000 are missing and hundreds of thousands have been wounded, in addition to the displacement of more than 1,900,000 Palestinians several times to places where there is no kind of Security. 

Tents and houses, as well as health and educational institutions, were also targeted, in a scene that shows how the "occupying state" did not respect any charter or contractual or international civil covenant, which foreshadows a catastrophe at the global level, especially with the continuation of the scenes of bloodshed, which will have a great impact on any subsequent conflict between the conflicting states. 

The occupying "state" has committed crimes documented in audio and video, especially in light of the spread of social media, and has not denied them, but justified them, and has gone further by trying to legitimize them internationally, whether through its official narratives or through its media and diplomatic tools. On the ground, it has also targeted the infrastructure of life, from hospitals to schools, from camps to food stalls and desalination plants, so that death has become more present than bread, and life has become an exception in the daily lives of Palestinians. 

In its war on the Gaza Strip, Israel has crossed all the red lines set by the international system since the middle of the last century, some of which were referred to at the beginning of this article, and not only violated agreements and texts, but also emptied them of their contents, relying on the umbrella of Western protection, especially by the United States of America, which not only did not condemn the crimes, but also continued its military, political and logistical support for the occupation "state", in addition to some Western countries, especially Germany. 

What the "occupying state" has done will have great consequences on subsequent generations, especially the Europeans, who believe that the "occupying state" has tampered with the system of laws that may lead to the collapse of the concept of humanity, and these generations who demonstrated in Oxford, Harvard, Columbia and other universities, will lead the international scene later, and then there will be no backer for this "state" that believes in blood and the extermination of the Palestinian race. 

As for the Palestinian and Arab generations, they will not be forgiven, and hatred will continue to grow with every drop of blood that is spilled, waiting for the opportune opportunity to revolt against this monster that is tyrannical with global imperialism.

The response will be painful and transcendent. The generations that saw death in the eyes of their mothers, hunger in the bellies of their brothers, and disillusionment in the silence of the world will not be forgotten.

They will see in these laws nothing but meaningless slogans, and they will not believe in a system that did not protect childhood and did not hold the criminal accountable. These generations will grow up to lose Trust, and perhaps the option of resistance as the only way to preserve dignity. It will carry the memory of blood, siege and abandonment, a memory that will write history through the eyes of the victims, not with the statements of the speakers.

Ultimately, what happened in the Gaza Strip threatens not only the Palestinians, but also the entire world order. Leaving the genocide unaccountable for the occupier does not produce peace, but rather sows the seeds of future wars, for which the whole world will be liable to pay.

The silence of the international community on what is happening in Gaza is not just complicity in silence, but it is an implicit participation in the crime. The failure of the UN system to stop this genocide, or even to call it by its true name, not only weakens the credibility of international law, but also erodes the last remaining moral legitimacy of it.