HASAt the beginning of this terrible year, there was an awful day. On October 7, 2023, the assault launched by Hamas on the outskirts of the Gaza enclave not only triggered the largest massacre of Israelis in the history of the Jewish State, with some 1,200 people killed, including 815 civilians. It is important to name well what was committed that day: a deliberate act of extermination that nothing, no cause, no suffering, could justify in the eyes of any observer in good faith who condemns the fact that a human being can be murdered for whatever reason. what is it. That Saturday, the Jewish citizens of Israel found themselves, along with other nationals, facing the weapons of a terrorist group, allied to another, the Lebanese Hezbollah, supported by a totalitarian military-religious regime, which the Iranian mullahs, who deny them the right to coexist in this part of the world.
That day, Hamas completed its discredit by adding another war crime to these mass killings, these tortures and these rapes, the taking of more than 250 hostages, many of whom have since been murdered, by their jailers or under the bombs, and around a hundred of whom remain detained in the Gaza Strip, in conditions we dare not imagine. A disturbing torture for families, an unbearable blackmail for a nation.
In fact, this crazy day passed, from its first afternoon, to a new radicalized phase of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, to a tragic year in which the self-defense carried out by the Israeli armed forces was rapidly transformed, at the will of the chief. of the Government, Benjamin Netanyahu, who wants to hide the security disaster of October 7 as soon as possible, in a revenge that has found no limits. In Gaza, reprisals and hunting by Hamas militants took the form of collective punishment against a population of two million inhabitants, the systematic destruction of their cities and infrastructure.
The Hamas Ministry of Health today estimates the death toll from these bombings, which left only ruins, at more than 41,000 deaths, including thousands of children. And no argument – the inaccuracy and bias of the count, the propensity of terrorists to hide among the population – can put the seriousness of these civilian deaths into perspective for anyone in good faith who adheres to these two founding principles of our democracies. . : all lives are equal, all humans are equal.
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