Can the world not come together and tell Benjamin Netanyahu that enough is enough?_
Winter in Palestine has become very brutal now. What makes this one even worse is that it comes on top of months of displacement, hunger and overtiredness. Infact, it has been years now.
The spectators and listeners have become so numb and indifferent that they can no longer even realize this pain. But only those who are going through this adversity and suffering can truly understand it. Those who have lost their loved ones have set aside their grief and struggle every day facing heartbreaking hardships for the survival of their children, mothers and relatives who remain.
Independent Urdu visuals revealed that in Khan Younis, Palestine, a displaced man, Samih Abu Saadaat, is living with his frail, elderly mother in the rusted body of a truck. He is appealing to the Arab and Islamic world for humanitarian aid, saying they urgently need tents and basic facilities. The designated zones are extremely narrow, and the place where they are living is not fit for human habitation. This is just one story but there are thousands more like it.
Infact, from every corner of Palestine, the echoes of such affected people’s stories can be heard.
Al Jazeera, TRT World, and Daily Sabah, almost every major outlet, are reporting daily on the oppression carried out by Israel in Palestine. They are not merely telling these stories; they are showing them. The scenes are so traumatic that they would make the hair stand on end of even the most hardened and indifferent person.
The Government Media Office reported last week that deaths caused by cold exposure have mounted to 24, including 21 children. Now, this tragedy is only from last week, in which innocent children lost their lives. Imagine how many children and elderly people have died from the winter of 2023 until now.
Israel did not respect the US-brokered ceasefire, which took effect on October 10, 2025 and did not implement it at all, they completely shattered it and violated hundreds of times. It had been decided that on daily basis, aid deliveries would be reaching Gaza, with at least 600 trucks a day to fulfil the population’s needs. Still, the Government Media Office reported only an average of 145 trucks have been entering Gaza since the ceasefire.
Since the ceasefire took effect, Israeli attacks have killed at least 464 Palestinians and injured 1,275. According to an Al Jazeera analysis of news reports, Israel carried out attacks on 86 out of 101 days of the ceasefire. The latest figures revealed that from October 7, 2023- January 17, 2026, at least 71,548 Palestinians have been killed with thousands still under rubble and at least 171,353 Palestinians have been injured many with life-altering wounds.
Can the world not come together and tell Benjamin Netanyahu that enough is enough?
Instead of resolving the Gaza issue or providing relief, so that children, the elderly, young men and women, girls and boys could breathe even a little in peace. The so called champions of human rights have dragged the world into one conflict after another, sometimes through illegal invasions of countries, and sometimes by destroying peace through proxies. The examples of Venezuela and Iran are right in front of everyone.
We admit that the world is not completely silent, protests are taking place, and arrest warrants have been issued by some countries against Benjamin Netanyahu. Yet none of this has made a real difference. The deaths have not decreased. The pain of people being displaced from their homes has not eased. The agony of losing loved ones has not lessened. The hunger of children crying from starvation has not been reduced. The heart breaking and tragic reality is that mothers themselves do not have enough food to breastfeed their newborns. When their own nutrition is inadequate, what can they possibly give a child to eat or drink?
The suffering of those who have been left permanently disabled continues. Orphaned children still struggle to find patience. And the intensity of this freezing cold, so severe it seems to coagulate the blood, has not diminished.
If not everything, then at least the first phase conditions of the 20-point proposal that include an end to hostilities in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, the lifting of Israel’s blockade on all aid, and a halt to its interference in aid distribution, should have been implemented.
And now comes the Board of Peace (BOP), a part of ongoing efforts to support the implementation of the Gaza Peace Plan under the framework of the UN Security Council Resolution 2803. But will it really change anything?
So, the same question arises again, how much more cruelty will the world continue to witness? And how much more blood do the world’s leaders need to see before they take any strong action?
