This Gaza Fact Will SICKEN You - Media Covers It Up by Owen Jones

Owen Jones, ‘Imagine one extended family was violently killed in Britain which has a population of around 69 million people. The grandfathers killed, the grandmothers killed, the fathers, the mothers, the uncles, the aunts, the teenagers, the toddlers, the newborn babies, all killed. One extended family gone, murdered in Britain. If that one extended family was killed in Britain, it would be regarded as one of the great crimes of the postwar era. This horror would be splashed on every front page.

It would lead every news bulletin. We would have indepth portraits of every victim. We would see the smiling faces of the photos of children and babies killed in this horror. Politicians would do grief stricken speeches. Social media would abound with ordinary citizens sharing their disgust, their horror. It would go down in the history books, a crime remembered with shock for generations. Gaza had a pre- genocide population of around 2.2 million, much smaller than Britain's 69 million people. According to a new study from Al Jazeera, Israel has wiped out more than 2,700 Palestinian extended families in Gaza since the genocide began in October 2023.The youngest victim killed in Gaza by the Israeli state, a one-year-old baby. The oldest victim, a 101year-old man.

Each family, their own memories, their own histories, their own traditions, their own secrets, their ups, their downs, their celebrations, their tragedies. All of these families gone, erased from the earth as though they didn't exist in the first place. All those precious shared moments that they had, a child's first word, family celebrations, days out of the beach, all of these families wiped from Gaza civil registry, all of their memories wiped along with them as if they never happened. If anywhere else on Earth, especially in a territory with just over 2 million people, 2,700 plus extended families had been violently exterminated in the space of 2 years. There would be no debate or discussion or controversy about whether that this constituted genocide. It would be deemed outrageous to even deny it. It is our responsibility,not least in countries which helped arm and facilitate this genocide, to remember all the details of what our countries helped do to the people of Gaza.