When a system works as intended: The genocide in Gaza

Gaza is being starved. Food, water, electricity, medicine, and aid are cut off. Families are slaughtered while waiting in line for food. Children die because the pumps don't run. Hunger is weaponized, and time itself becomes part of the killing.

This is genocide, carried out through the destruction of infrastructure and the deliberate obstruction of Palestinian civilian life.

I build systems. I know what it looks like when one is doing what it was built to do. What's happening in Gaza is not failure. It isn't chaos, it's control: Logistics, policy, supply chains, military force, all tools being used in a coordinated manner to get exactly the outcome we're seeing. Not to protect civilians. But to collapse the daily life of Palestinians until there's nothing left to destroy.

None of this is accidental. Bombing bakeries, hospitals, refugee camps, schools, and apartment blocks. Cutting water lines. Flattening agricultural land. Blocking aid convoys at the border crossing into Gaza. These are not examples of "targeting Hamas". They require planning, coordination, approval, and has the aim to kill civilians masked as military necessity in the name of destroying Hamas. They depend on systems and infrastructure, and they are the result of deliberate decisions.

Gaza is being dismantled by a machine designed for targeted civilian death and destruction. It works as intended, and it works too well. The world is watching it run, and some celebrate its efficiency.

This is being carried out by the Israeli government with its military powering the machine of destruction, fully aware of its impact. The responsibility lies with those in power, and that includes Benjamin Netanyahu giving the orders and directing this destruction. The Israeli government must be held accountable. We need an immediate ceasefire and for the people in Gaza to have safe access to humanitarian aid. Now.

Yes, Hamas is a terrorist organization. What they did on October 7, 2023 was horrifying and no moral society should ever defend Hamas. But acknowledging that does not excuse the mass killing of tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians, increasing every day. It does not justify starving a population, destroying its hospitals, targeting shelters, blocking aid, and making life deadly for over two million people, half of them being children.

Genocide cannot be justified, and it is not made legal with power.

What's happening in Gaza is systematic and impossible to defend. And it needs to be named for what it is: genocide. Because if we can't say it now, after all we've seen, then when?