'A War against Children’ - So far 14000 Palestinian children killed by Israel
ICJ must prosecute Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu for war crime
NEW DELHI: Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) appeals to the farmers across India to extend support and solidarity to the farmers of Palestine who are facing successive terrorist attacks in the villages by settler gangs with the backing of the Israeli occupying army.
The army and the gangsters are targeting residential areas and farmers in villages in particular in the West Bank alongside the genocidal war in Gaza committing massacres including killings, burning of homes and farms, deliberate destruction of property as part of their continuing efforts to displace them. Hundreds of farmers have lost lives with thousands severely injured in these attacks.
The Palestinian farmers unions have called for urgent international protection for Palestinian farmers. SKM appeals all farmers in India to extend solidarity to Palestinian farmers and write to the President of India urging the Government of India must do everything to end the genocide, urgent ceasefire and end the massacre of Palestinians especially children and women by the army and settler gangs of Zionist Israel.
As per the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the number of children killed in the besieged Gaza strip since October 7, 2023 has surpassed 14000. UNICEF has requested the entire world to do something for a ceasefire. The Israel attack has become ‘a war against children’ and Gaza is home of above one million children. One child was killed or severely injured every ten minutes in each day in Gaza. According to Gaza’s ministry of health, 34012 Palestinians have been killed and 76833 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on 7th October 2023. Above this, at least 7000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Gaza strip. There was displacement of nearly two million people- the largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.
Majority of those killed or wounded by Israel are women and children. The war has resulted in an acute famine in northern Gaza, resulting in the death of many people, mostly children. In the last six months, more civilians have been killed in this conflict than in any war of the modern era. And no war has killed this many innocent children. Ceasefire is the only way now to stop the killing and maiming of children.
SKM demands the International Court of Justice to prosecute the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a war criminal for the dreadful cruelty unleashed against children and women.
The Zionist dogma based on hate politics is the root cause of the ongoing genocide. The Jewish people have been subjected to the worst genocide in the history under the Nazi Germany led by Adolf Hitler. The modern state of Israel consisting of the Jewish people is perpetrating the most inhuman, cruel genocide against Palestinians today is a paradox.
SKM demands India must play its traditional and most important role for mobilizing world opinion for world peace and against the Imperialist forces led by USA that stood with Israel and veto the resolutions in the UN Security Council that demands ceasefire. For that India must come out of the clutches of the USA-Israel nexus and regain its status as the voice of the developing countries.