By Robert Fantina, World BEYOND War, February 15, 2026

It has long been known by anyone paying attention that the Zionist regime is one of the most savage on the planet, possibly eclipsed only by the United States. In the past, the U.S. has often committed its war crimes and crimes against humanity behind the façade of “humanitarian aid.” Most recently, it kidnapped the president of Venezuela, killing at least 100 innocent people in the process, in order to “assist” the people there and, well, why not take their oil as long as U.S. soldiers are there anyway. The U.S. government has now prevented oil from being shipped to Cuba — a peaceful nation that, like Venezuela, doesn’t do the U.S.’s bidding — preventing the populace from having fuel or sufficient drinking water. Yes, humanitarianism indeed!

But back to Israel; on February 10, Aljazeera reported that Israel’s weapons, built partly with supplies provided by the U.S. government, have “evaporated” nearly 3,000 people. And that figure is just based on forensic information completed to date. The actual number is certainly much higher. The number is determined, according to Mahmoud Basal from Gaza’s Civil Defence, by first learning from survivors how many people where in a house when it was bombed, and “If a family tells us there were five people inside, and we only recover three intact bodies, we treat the remaining two as ‘evaporated’ only after an exhaustive search yields nothing but biological traces — blood spray on walls or small fragments like scalps.” This new horror is caused by the extreme heat; boiling occurs at 100 degrees Celsius (212 degrees Fahrenheit), and these bombs explode with temperatures between 2,500 to 3,000 degrees Celsius (4523 to 5432 degrees Fahrenheit).

The Aljazeera article is replete with stories of desperate parents searching for some trace of their children. For many, blood spatter on the walls is all that is left.

International law (yes, that old thing) forbids using any weapons that cause “unnecessary suffering” or do not distinguish between combatants and civilians. The Geneva Convention of 1949, Article 35 states: “It is prohibited to employ weapons, projectiles and material and methods of warfare of a nature to cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering”. The 1977 Additional Protocol I (API), Article 51, prohibits ‘indiscriminate attacks’, which specifically include any that “are of a nature to strike military objectives and civilians or civilian objects without distinction”.

We all know, of course, that Israel has been targeting sites where “military objectives and civilians or civilian objects” are bombed “without distinction”. The purpose of this current genocide was never to eliminate Hamas; it was simply to eliminate all the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Whether that was done by bombing, vaporizing, or starving them to death didn’t and doesn’t matter to the Zionist regime and its complicit Western backers. It all continues to this very day.

And while government leaders breathed a sigh of relief about the “ceasefire” that never was (signed in October, but violated by Israel at least 1,620 times by February 10 of this year, resulting in the deaths of over 500 Palestinians) conditions for the Palestinians in the West Bank are also worsening. The Israeli government has approved 19 new settlements there; it must be remembered that all current and any future settlements in the West Bank are considered illegal under international law. United Nations spokespeople, and representatives from several nations, have issued “strongly worded” (read: meaningless) objections to the approval of these settlements. The UN is “gravely concerned,” and several Muslim-majority countries issued condemnations. Additionally, settler violence against Palestinians, long a staple of Palestinian life there, has greatly accelerated since the start of the Gaza genocide.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s so-called “peace plan” for Gaza is lacking in too many areas to discuss in one short essay. But a main point is that the people of Palestine were not, and will not be, consulted about their own future. U.S. spokespeople are always proclaiming how everyone in the world has the right to self-determination: to decide for themselves the form of government under which they will live. Everyone, of course, except Palestinians, Iraqis, Cubans, Afghans, Syrians, the people of Lebanon and Yemen, Iranians — the list is really quite long. Since 1950, the U.S. has ‘intervened’ to overthrow governments, fomented right-wing revolutions or supported brutal, oppressive dictators in the following countries[1]: Vietnam, Dominican Republic, Angola, Nicaragua, Lebanon, Grenada, Panama, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Iran, Guatemala, Albania, Laos, Ghana, Indonesia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Cambodia, Myanmar, Argentina, El Salvador, Yugoslavia, Sudan, and Columbia. Just since 2001, it is estimated that U.S. “interventions” have killed at least 4,500,000 people. And that figure is from 2023 and doesn’t include the tens of thousands killed by Israel with U.S. weapons and complete U.S. support.

Early in the genocide, the U.S. vetoed a Security Council resolution calling for a humanitarian ceasefire, and has since vetoed six Security Council resolutions calling for an immediate ceasefire. And while the so-called “ceasefire” agreement that supposedly went into effect in October of 2025 has been violated at least  1,620 times by Israel, no Western government officials are mentioning that; they all seem content with the fact that a “ceasefire” was agreed to; the fact that one side, the far more powerful side, is basically ignoring it isn’t important to them.

For over 26 months, people around the world have been demanding an end to this genocide, but their governments are not getting the message. At the ballot box and with continued huge numbers of peaceful protests globally, we who believe in human rights, justice and international law, and care more about those issues than we do about power and profits, must continue to make our voices heard, and demand that the Palestinians are granted the rights guaranteed to them under international law, and also demand accountability for those who have deprived them of those rights. If this accountability is ever realized, the dock at the Hague will be filled with world leaders. This writer hopes to see that day; it is long overdue and can’t possibly come soon enough.

[1] Please see my book, Propaganda, Lies and False Flags: How the U.S. Justifies its Wars.

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