A shameful milestone has just been crossed in Gaza: more than 10,000 Palestinians have been slaughtered as Israel conducts its bloodthirsty campaign in the besieged Strip in response to the Hamas attack of Oct 7.

Gaza’s people have been denied food, water, fuel and adequate medical care in what could be described as a 21st-century holocaust, ironically perpetrated by the offspring of those who had survived the horrors of the Third Reich.

Life in Gaza and the rest of occupied Palestine had been miserable even before the Hamas assault; now it is a fight for survival for the Palestinian people.

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