Normalizing Horror in Gaza — A Foreign Policy & Moral Disaster

In two months, Israel has dropped more bombs on Gaza than the US did in its twenty years in Afghanistan. More children have been killed in Gaza in two months than in Ukraine in two years.

Nearly 85 percent (about 1.9 million) of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have been displaced in the Gaza Strip, according to sources.

The UN Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, said it had taken 1.4 million people into its facilities. They are so overcrowded that there were 486 people for every toilet in its shelters in Rafah, as The Globe and Mail reports.

UNRWA’s commissioner general, Philippe Lazzarini, said that since the outbreak of the war, 80 UN facilities in the Gaza Strip have been hit. UNRWA has said that more than 220 Palestinians were killed in these strikes and that 130 of its employees have lost their lives in the war.

In the West Bank, which Israel occupies, more than 300 Palestinians have been killed in two months, including four overnight (from Sunday to Monday, December 18) during an Israeli military raid in the built-up Faraa refugee camp, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. More than 1,000 Palestinians have been displaced in the West Bank since October 7.

This has been the deadliest year for Palestinians in the West Bank since 2005.

France, Germany, and the UK — Israel’s closest allies — all joined global calls for a ceasefire in Gaza because of the scale of killing and…