Israel has launched a heavy air assault on Rafah, the last part of Gaza that Israeli authorities had declared a “safe zone” – where 1.5 million Palestinians are said to have fled – and the evidence shows that the result has been a bloodbath.

Strangely, it seems to be going unreported in countries like the UK, where the government supports Israel’s genocide with aid, weapons and ammunition. Instead, the news agenda seems to be dominated by reports of a raid in which two hostages were rescued – who would probably have been freed anyway if Hamas’s offer to free its hostages had been accepted by Israel.

This seems to be Israel’s endgame – a point at which all pretence of conducting itself in a responsible, humanitarian way towards civilians has been dropped and the genuine intention – to murder everybody left in Gaza in the most brutal, painful and graphic way possible – has been exposed.

Some of the UK’s political class have spoken out about this slaughter – but they are a vanishingly small proportion of the total.

Images of the carnage have been emerging – and are having a shattering effect on those who have seen them.

Hopefully this article has run far enough down the screen that anybody who clicked on it by mistake will have left, having realised that it’s going to contain some horrifying imagery. I know the headline says “don’t look away” – and I hope you can bear to see what follows – but I also know that some of you may not be able to stomach it.

Here it comes. Note that the first post is a response to an Israel apologist who tries to justify that country’s bloodlust by equating it with all Jews across the world, applauding its ability to “fight back”.

https://twitter.com/a_leesha1/status/1757019388085989430

Yes indeed.

It must make Israelis feel strong indeed, knowing they can fight back against defenceless children, mutilating their bodies and forever scarring their minds.

If you didn’t click on the image above, you may not have grasped the full horror of what you were looking at. Here’s a verbal description:

In the video clip below, people try to clean up children’s body parts.

https://twitter.com/elias_greig/status/1756967249964097749

The comment draws attention to the contribution of world powers to this slaughter – including both the UK and USA:

As Matt Kennard points out below, people here in the UK have responsibility for this, alongside those in Israel.

https://twitter.com/kennardmatt/status/1757020102745104710

So if you are planning to vote for either a Labour or Conservative candidate in the forthcoming UK general election, remember that those parties fully supported Israel in everything it has done to Gaza – and ignored all the evidence of genocide.

Not only that, but the UK’s government, supported by Labour, intervened to stop Yemen’s Houthis from disrupting Israel’s genocide by attacking trade on the Red Sea. Apparently Rishi Sunak would not brook interference with Israel’s profitability.

The people under attack here are mostly refugees, and Israel’s attack is sponsored by the UK government, so it is appropriate to remember the words of the late, great Tony Benn.

He said: “The way a Government treats refugees is very instructive because it shows you how they would treat the rest of us if they thought they could get away with it.”

So if you support the Conservatives, or Labour, at this year’s general election, you will be saying that you yourself fully condone what Israel has done to the children of Gaza and you would also support it if your government did the same to your children, if you have them.

Look again at that image of the child hanging from a hook, her legs a bloody ruin.

Do you really want a government that could do that to your own children – or to you – for the sake of a bit of money?

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