By Guillermo Alvarado

More than 24,000 people have already died in the Gaza Strip, most of them women, children and the elderly, due to the indiscriminate and massive bombardments and ground attacks perpetrated by Israel, affecting homes, hospitals, schools and places of worship of different religions.

Rarely, perhaps only in the U.S. war against Vietnam, or the internal armed conflict in Guatemala, have we seen such horrifying cases of scorched earth, where no stone has been left upon a stone, nor inhabitants to tell the story.

In the name of an absurd "right to defense", cowardly wielded by Tel Aviv and supported without restrictions by the United States, civilians became targets of war, before the indifference of many countries of the world, including a good part of "civilized" Europe.

The day before, the Zionist Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant, said that the intensity of the attacks in the north of the Strip had decreased because the Hamas battalions there had already been defeated, but perhaps this is due to the fact that in practice there is nothing left to destroy in that area or, perhaps, to lighten the tone for an eventual condemnation by the International Criminal Court (ICC).

The official also referred to allegations that saturation bombing caused the death of several Israeli citizens, who were prisoners of the Hamas organization.

In this regard Gallant argued that without military pressure the hostages will not be released and added that this goal can only be achieved from a position of strength.

In reality, everything indicates that the lives of these people are the least of the concerns of Benjamin Netanyahu's government, determined at all costs to destroy a people, its culture and its history.

Meanwhile, in the now called Hostages Square, in the center of Tel Aviv, the families of the 132 captives in Gaza held a protest against Netanyahu, with the participation of the President of Israel, Isaac Herzog, and the head of the legislative opposition, Yair Lapid.

In reality, the future of the current Zionist Prime Minister is not very clear, since in addition to the internal fronts that are being opened against him, a group of 100 Chilean lawyers filed a direct and personal complaint against him before the ICC for the crimes of genocide and war crimes.

This, independently of the case against the Israeli State opened by the South African complaint and supported by other countries. Nevertheless, the slaughter continues and there are more than 100 days of pain and death in Gaza.