THIS is with reference to the report “FO urges world to develop ‘concrete plan’ to rebuild Gaza, demands accountability for Israeli crimes” (Dawn.Com, Jan 23). Let us put aside the loss of over 46,000 Palestinians, which is painful to even fathom. According to some reports, 90 per cent of schools are damaged, and 70pc of agriculture has been destroyed in Gaza by the Zionist occupiers. The question now is: how to rebuild the ravaged city? The cost of rebuilding must not be borne by the ‘international community’, but by the occupiers and the coalition of Western supporters who are responsible for what has happened in Palestine.

No doubt, the United Nations would run around seeking funds from the Arab or other nations moved by the scale of the damage done by the Zionist settlers who were planted in the region by the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States. But the world should not fall in the trap once again.

The occupiers have got away with this for far too many a time. This kind of damage is nothing new as whenever the occupation has failed in its policy or whenever there is an election in the air, the Zionists ‘mow the lawn’, as they put it in Gaza.

This time the occupier must be made to pay for its crimes against humanity. The Zionists cannot bring back murdered innocent people, including thousands of children and women, but they surely can rebuild what they have destroyed.

Angabeen Ahmad
Karachi

Published in Dawn, February 6th, 2025