After receiving their latest supply of ammunition and assurances from the criminal regime of Joe Biden, the Zionist occupation forces are free to take off their masks in Gaza. They no longer have even the slightest desire to conduct themselves as anything but what they are: exterminators who have come to depopulate a land of its restive natives.
With the ironclad guarantees and infinite weapons from the Biden regime, the Zionist plan is working its way towards a “final solution.” However, there may be a problem. The Zionist forces may have finally killed one person too many, and now the blood and soil obsessed Zionists are turning on themselves.
The last few days have marked an escalation in the conflict that is shocking even by the low standards of Zionist murderers. While the vast majority of their atrocities aren’t publicized due to their intentional policy of murdering journalists on the ground and tight control of information, the IOF has become so brazen in their crimes that they can no longer be ignored.
On the 16th of December, IOF snipers opened fire on a crowd taking shelter in the Church of the Holy Family, a Catholic Church in Gaza. A woman was carrying her daughter to safety when both were shot by an IOF sniper in broad daylight and in full view of the staff. IOF forces continued to fire on the Church, wounding many others and proving that their first bullets were not a mistake. No warning was given, and no justification has been provided by the IOF. Since the IOF brags constantly about how they know where every bullet goes, they should never be given the benefit of the doubt.
A group of around 500 Palestinian Christians have been sheltering in the church since October. After their homes were destroyed by indiscriminate IOF bombing, the staff of the church opened their doors to offer protection and shelter to their community. This effort was noticed and approved at the highest echelons of the church, with even Pope Francis personally checking in on their efforts through a daily phone call. It is not just the local Christians and their families, the group also includes around 50 disabled people who are being cared for by the nuns of the attached convent after the IOF intentionally destroyed all of Gaza’s hospitals and care facilities.
Despite repeated threats, the people trusted in the humanity of the IOF to not attack them. As usual, assuming that fascists posses any humanity is the last mistake many of them will ever make. The IOF has repeatedly attacked the church with rockets, depriving the building of power even before the sniper attacks. Despite this, the people remain defiant. The Church of the Holy Family has continued operation during the war, offering mass to the faithful twice a day and protection to all who need it, despite dwindling supplies.
I continue receiving very serious and sad news about Gaza. Unarmed civilians are targets for bombs and gunfire. And this has happened even within the parish complex of the Holy Family, where there are no terrorists, but families, children, people who are sick and have disabilities, sisters,-Pope Francis
This is not an isolated incident. We are seeing increasing evidence that the IOF is simply shooting everything that moves in Gaza. This comes as no surprise to those of us who have been paying attention, but the fact that the IOF’s crimes have broken containment is a new development, and one caused by their own incompetence and blood lust.
The IOF is at least nominally in Gaza to save the hostages taken by resistance forces on October 7th. However, this stated goal is diametrically opposed to their strategy of indiscriminately shooting everything that moves.
The reason why the sniper attacks on the Church of the Holy Family did not receive as much press as usual is because the IOF was already embroiled in a scandal after it was revealed that they murdered three of the hostages they had come to “save” in cold blood.
As more details emerge, the story only looks worse for the IOF and the Netanyahu regime.
The hostages were not tightly guarded by Hamas and had been trying to get the attention of IOF forces for several days. At some point, they even spray painted the words “3 hostages” and “SOS” on bed sheets, which they hanged from the windows. When IOF soldiers approached, the three men stripped down to show they were unarmed and approached IOF forces waving a white flag.
Apparently used to seeing their own reflections in the mirror, the IOF thugs shouted “Terrorists!” and opened fire, murdering two of the hostages, Samar Talalka and Alon Shamriz, where they stood. The badly wounded third man, Yotam Haim, made his way back into the building where he begged for his life in Hebrew before he was executed by IOF solders.
The situation for Haim is particularly egregious. A red haired, blue eyed white man does not look anything like your average Gazan. This, of course, is because he is not. Haim was born on a Kibbutz near Gaza, these agricultural compounds are settlements in the most literal sense, a small parcels of land stolen from the Palestinians by white Europeans seeking to “reclaim” a land which never truly belonged to them.
It’s fitting that the photos of Yotam Haim used by the Israeli propagandists show him sitting in front of a confederate flag emblazoned poster for the neo-Nazi heavy metal band Pantera. As usual, the apartheid state of “Israel” is so warped and rotten that any attempt to show its true face outside of carefully manicured PR campaigns only makes it look more repugnant to the outside world.
Perhaps this can explain why the murder of these three hostages has finally woken the settlers from their slumber. Massive protests have broken out inside the Zionist entity, with tens of thousands taking to the streets to protest against the fascist Netanyahu regime and demand an end to the fighting. Nothing could be more revealing of the true face of Zionist ideology than this. The deaths of 20,000 Palestinian civilians (nearly 10,000 of which are children) saw almost no reaction from the settlers, but the death of one white man threatens the very stability of the Zionist entity.
Under normal circumstances, the government would simply ignore its subjects, but the rogue nation is under unique pressure. It has faced considerable unrest for many years due to widespread charges of corruption against the ruling regime. Netanyahu responded by taking control of the judiciary to insulate the ruling party from any further investigations. This enraged the settlers to such an extent that hundreds of thousands of them took to the streets in protest. Until October 12th, when further demonstrations were banned due to martial law, the regime was rocked by almost nightly protests from opposition forces, including large sections of the military, police and intelligence. In clashes with protesters, regime forces beat dissidents from horseback and routinely employed chemical weapons against their own people.
In light of this, the resumption of protests against the regime poses a serious threat to its stability. With their causalities in Gaza climbing ever higher thanks to the increasingly effective actions of the Palestinian resistance, the IOF is already facing a desertion crisis so severe they were forced to issue a general amnesty rather than dissolve entire units.
While we can only hope for the best and pray for the removal of the unhinged fascist regime, the fact is that the deaths of these men are simply the Zionist chickens coming home to roost. The IOF did not enter Gaza to save the hostages, to eliminate Hamas or even to take revenge for October 7th. They did it for one reason, to exterminate the people of Gaza and open the land for settlement.
As usual, their own words and actions are the best evidence. Before they enter battle, Zionist forces sing songs about how there are no innocents in Gaza. Zionist real estate firms are already planning their new colonies Gaza region, eagerly offering their clients the first chance at beach front homes. Before that work can begin, Gaza must be cleansed of all its inhabitants.
There is a word for this. It’s called genocide, and we are witnessing it in real time from the settler-colonial regime and their backers in Washington. It is long past time that we start treating it like what it is.