Goodwill runs out as VK, France and Canada demands Israel -ending Gaza Offensive

Israel was fought after the Hamas attacks of 7 October 2023 armed with an arsenal of weapons that are usually paid, delivered and then provided by the United States.

The other allies gave Israel a little as powerful in his own way: a deep honor of goodwill and solidarity, based on aversion to the murders of 1,200 people, mostly Israeli citizens, and the sight of 251 people dragged in Gaza in Gaza.

Now it seems that Israel’s credit has disappeared, at least as far as France, the United Kingdom and Canada are concerned. They have published their strongest conviction so far from the way Israel ways the war in Gaza.

Israel, they say, must stop New offensivePrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says it will destroy Hamas, save the remaining hostages and have put all Gaza under direct Israeli military control.

Their explanation rejects the arguments of Netanyahu and calls for a cease -the fire. Together the three governments say that they ‘strongly oppose the expansion of Israel’s military operations in Gaza’ and added: ‘the level of human suffering in Gaza is unbearable’.

They call for the release of the remaining hostages and recall that after the “horrible attack” on 7 October they believed that the Israeli state “had the right to defend Israelis against terrorism. But this escalation is completely disproportionate”.

The decision of Netanyahu to allow what he called “minimal” food in Gaza said “completely insufficient”.

Netanyahu has hit back and says that the “leaders in London, Ottowa and Paris offer a huge price for the genocidal attack on Israel on October 7, while inviting more of such atrocities”.

He insisted that the war could end if Hamas would return hostages, laid his arms, agreed that his leaders would go into exile and Gaza was demilitarized. “No nation cannot be expected to accept a little less and Israel will certainly not do that,” he said.

Netanyahu – which is being sought on the basis of an international criminal order for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity, which he has rejected as “anti -Semitic” – had been under heavy international pressure to end the blockade of Gaza after a respected international survey had warned threatening hunger.

At the London top between the EU and the UK, the President of the European Council, António Costa, called the humanitarian crisis in Gaza “a tragedy in which international law is systematically violated, and a whole population is subject to disproportionate military power.”

“There must be safe, fast and unobstructed access for humanitarian aid,” he said.

The reluctant decision of Netanyahu to allow in limited stocks was convicted by his ultra nationalist Coalition Partners.

The Minister of Security ITAMAR Ben GVIR, convicted in 2007 for setting up racism and supporting an extremist Jewish group that classifies Israel as a terrorist organization, complained that the decision of Netanyahu Hamas would nourish and give the oxygen while our hostages in tunnines. ”

Only five trucks were brought in Gaza on Monday, while Israeli troops made up and aerial and artillery attacks more perished Palestinian citizens, including many young children.

Opponents of Israel’s destruction of Gaza and killing tens of thousands of Palestinian citizens will say that the governments of France, the UK and Canada speak much too late.

Many of them have held months of demonstrations that protest about the death and destruction of Gaza – and more murder of Palestinian citizens and seizure of land on the West Bank, the other side of the Palestinian territories, during military operations and raids by armed Jewish settlers.

But sometimes in the war policy, a single incident has symbolic power that clarifies so sharply and crystallizes that the governments can force action. This time it was the murder on March 23 by Israeli troops in Gaza of 15 paramedics and care providers.

It came after Israel, on March 18, had broken a ceasefire that had held a series of massive air strikes for two months.

Five days in the renewed war, an Israeli unit attacked the medical convoy and the men they had killed and their bullet -driven vehicles with the sand. The Israeli report of what happened turned out not to be true when a mobile phone was found from a body in the mass grave.

The owner had filmed the incident before being killed. Far from the evidence of Israel’s claim that the emergency services were a potential threat to the Israeli combat soldiers, the video of the grave showed that clearly marked and well -lit ambulances and emergency vehicles were systematically attacked until almost everyone was killed in it.

Alarm has grown rapidly since then, not only with the usual opponents of Israel. The European allies, with President Macron of France who ran the way, have paved their language. The explanation that puts an end to the offensive of Israel is their heaviest criticism of Israel so far.

A senior European diplomatic source that was involved in their discussions told me that the difficult language reflected a “real sense of growing political anger about the humanitarian situation, of a line that is crossed, and of this Israeli government that seemed to act imposing”.

More ominous for Israel, says the statement that “we will not remain standing while the Netanyahu government will pursue this gross actions. If Israel does not terminate the renewed military offensive and dedicates the limitations to humanitarian help, we will take concrete steps as a response”.

They do not indicate what that could be. Sanctions can be one possibility. A bigger step would be to recognize Palestine as an independent state.

France is considering becoming a member of the 148 other states who did this at a conference that is the co-chairman of Saudi Arabia in New York at the beginning of June. The UK has also discussed Palestinian recognition with the French.

Israel, pushed back hard, told them that they would present Hamas a victory. But the tone of the explanation of the French, the Canadians and the British suggest that Israel loses his ability to put them under pressure.