‘200 days of livestreamed genocide’: Netizens react as Gaza war marks 200 days

By Press TV Website Staff

Lifeless bodies lying unattended on the desolate streets of Gaza. Hospitals and schools reduced to rubble. Millions of people rendered homeless and struggling for a loaf of bread.

This succinctly sums up the 200 days of the Israeli regime’s genocidal aggression on the besieged Palestinian territory, which started immediately after Operation Al-Aqsa Storm on October 7, 2023.

As the genocidal aggression completes 200 days, the death toll in the coastal strip has topped 34,100, with 72 percent of victims being children and women, according to the Gaza government office.

While the Israeli regime continues to bombard the territory, the United States and other Western countries, including the United Kingdom and Germany, continue to supply it with advanced weapons.

The UN Security Council (UNSC) has also failed to play its role in pressing for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza while other international bodies, including the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the International Court of Justice (ICJ), have also fallen short of holding the regime accountable.

As the war completed its 200 days on Tuesday, social media users took to X, formerly Twitter, to express their anger and outrage over the unabated genocidal war crimes perpetrated by Israel against Gazans.

US-based academic and author Assal Rad, in a post on X on Tuesday, shared a harrowing photo of a crestfallen father screaming in pain and anguish next to the body of his slain young son.

“200 days of this in Gaza and some of you want to pretend like the problem is students protesting in America,” she wrote, referring to growing protests on university campuses across the US.

Muhammad Smiry, a Gaza-based journalist and social media influencer, reminded people that it was not just 200 days of the Israeli genocidal war against Palestinians, but “75 years.”

“It’s been 200 days and 75 years,” Smiry wrote. In an earlier post, he said Israel was “having fun” bombing Gaza.

Palestinian parliamentarian Mustafa Barghouti, in a post on X, said after 200 days of the Israeli war, more than 34,000 Palestinians have been killed, of which 70 percent are women and children.

“After 200 days of Israeli attacks on Gaza more than 34,000 Palestinians killed of whom 70% are children and women in addition to an estimated 7,000 missing under the rubble and more than 76,000 injured,” he wrote in the tweet, with hashtag #200DaysOfGenocide

“Most infrastructure was destroyed as well as 70% of all homes, all universities, 33 out of 36 hospitals. In the West Bank, the Israeli army and settlers killed 486 Palestinians and injured more than 4700.”

Writer and editor Bhakti Shringarpure, in a post on X, shared an article that discussed the reasons why there was more focus on American campuses than the actual genocidal war unfolding in Gaza.

“This article explains why we’ve had 200 days inundated with congressional hearings & rubbish exaggerated coverage of universities in turmoil but silence on Gaza,” She wrote.

Abdullah Omar, whose X profile describes him as an “average 23-year-old Palestinian trying to survive the genocide in Gaza”, encapsulated the horrors experienced by those in Gaza since October 7.

“200 days of war on the Gaza Strip. 200 days passed by us as if they were 200 years. 200 days of killing, siege, starvation, extermination, betrayal and silence. 200 days in which 14,000 children were killed 200 days of killing of women, the elderly and children continues,” he wrote.

“200 days, and the Arab and Islamic world and the entire world have been silent about Gaza and do not care about the killing of children and women. 200 days and we have been steadfast, steadfast and patient in Gaza. 200 days Gaza exposed the human rights lie. 200 days and the world does not care about Gaza. God is with us and we do not need anyone.”

Maha Hussaini, a Gaza-based journalist and rights campaigner, also recollected the horrors of 100 days.

“200 days of nonstop bombardment, of recurrent displacements, of continuous loss of people and places, of eating canned food, of being homeless. 4,800 hours of feeling insecure, of living today as the last day, of living death, of missing life, of losing faith in human rights laws,” she wrote on X.

Lebanese journalist Zeinab Al Saffar said the 200 days of war on Gaza has been marked by “genocide, extermination, killing and destruction before the eyes of the whole (civilized) world.”

“200 days & those closest to us (Jordan, Egypt, &others) hand in hand with the enemy are participating in starving the people of Gaza and besieging them. About 35 thousand martyrs, most of them infants children and women, and about 80 thousand wounded in the greatest massacre committed in modern history.” she wrote.

In contrast, she hastened to add that Palestinians have been remarkably patient and steadfast.

“200 days of patience and sacrifice for an unparalleled & unrivaled people, old and young, men and women, the LIVE epitome of steadfastness and defiance and whose mouthpiece is: “God is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs,” Saffar wrote.

“200 days of steadfastness by the brave resistance that astonished the world and shattered the myth of the invincible army. 200 days of courageous endurance from the support fronts from Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq and Syria, at the forefront the Islamic Republic of Iran, which has changed the equations since April 14 of this current month.”

Palestinian journalist Ahmed Shameya shared an evocative cartoon to compare Gaza in 2023 and 2014.

“It's been 200 days of Israel's genocide against Gaza,” he wrote in his tweet.

Amy Pope, director general of UN Migration, also took to X to condemn the 200 days of the Israeli war on Gaza, marked by death, destruction and displacement.

“Today marks 200 days since the war on Gaza began. 200 days of casualties, deaths and destruction 200 days of dire humanitarian crisis 200 days of displacements 200 days of hostages and anxious families,” Pope wrote.

“We need a ceasefire, humanitarian access, and an end to human suffering now.”

Nimer Sultany, a Palestine-origin writer and analyst, termed it “200 days of livestreamed genocide,” citing Blinne Ni Ghralaigh, an adviser to the South African legal team at the UN court in The Hague.

“The first genocide in history where its victims are broadcasting their own destruction in real-time in the desperate, so far vain hope that the world might do something,” he wrote, citing her.

Social media activist Javeria Sultan wrote that the greatest of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane, referring to the 34,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza since October 7.

“Just like mine and yours in the last 200+ days. I see humans, but I see no humanity. No regard for love or human life. Babies, mothers, fathers, toddlers, Just like you, me and ours,” she wrote.

The death toll in the apartheid regime’s genocidal campaign has reached 34,183 since October 7, with many more still trapped under the rubble and unaccounted for.

The 2.3 million people in the besieged territory also continue to deal with a catastrophic humanitarian crisis amid relentless bombings and crippling siege imposed by the Tel Aviv regime.

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