Sunday’s atrocity, which came just days after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that Israel should stop its offensive in Rafah, was described in harrowing fashion by journalist Leila Molana-Allen. She wrote on Twitter/X: “I’m receiving videos far too graphic to publish ..
. a body burned black, dragged from destroyed makeshift tents, a young child in pieces. One toddler has been completely beheaded in the attack.
Parents are clutching their dead children, screaming.” Meanwhile, the “rules-based order”, such as it ever existed, is being openly trashed. As an International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor applies for arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant for a litany of heinous war crimes, the American response is telling.
They want to sanction the court itself and openly state that if the ICC should be allowed to progress in this manner, their own leaders will be next. Whatever your perspective, these are objectively historic developments. Even if you disagree with the ICJ and the ICC, that doesn’t change the fact of their provisions and rulings.
The extent to which this is ideologically and geopolitically shattering for the West cannot be underestimated. When, at the same time, Action Aid has to issue press releases about fighter jets launching missiles on makeshift shelters for already displaced civilians, we can be emphatic. The Western leadership has been on the wrong side of history.
Morally, politically and legally. Closer to ho.
