My Take | The Western world has already dug its own grave in Gaza war
By enabling Israel to unleash its genocidal impulse, most leaders of developed nations have crossed a moral red line that cannot be undone
It’s a bleak statement issued by The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: “Escalating atrocities in Gaza present an urgent moral crossroads and states must act now to end the violence or bear witness to the annihilation of the Palestinian population in Gaza – an outcome with irreversible consequences for our shared humanity and multilateral order.”
The warning came from a team of UN experts.
“While states debate terminology – is it or is it not genocide? – Israel continues its relentless destruction of life in Gaza, through attacks by land, air and sea, displacing and massacring the surviving population with impunity,” the UN experts said.
“No one is spared – not the children, persons with disabilities, nursing mothers, journalists, health professionals, aid workers, or hostages. Since breaking the ceasefire, Israel has killed hundreds of Palestinians, many daily – peaking on 18 March 2025 with 600 casualties in 24 hours, 400 of whom were children.”
Calling Israel’s actions “one of the most ostentatious and merciless manifestations of the desecration of human life and dignity”, UN officials said the aggression had transformed Gaza into a landscape of desolation, where nearly half of the casualties were children.
Some 52,535 have died, 70 per cent of them women and children, and 118,490-plus injuries as of last week.