I originally wrote about the scale and impacts of this Genocide by Air in Gaza, in October 2024. Since then, the same pattern of complete destruction from the air has continued, murdering at least dozens of Palestinians every single day, hour-by-hour, and destroying every means of survival; homes, tents, food production and delivery, water supplies, hospitals, sanitation, jobs, banks, roads….Everything.

It is difficult to place in to any historical context what we are continuing to witness through this gigantic use of the most advanced aerial weaponry and AI systems, upon a defenseless and now completely impoverished, occupied and ethnically cleansed civilian population, who are simply trying to survive within a completely annihilated physical and starved environment.

I will just repeat the paragraph from my first piece, to provide at least some context to what is being done. There has never been a comparable amount of bombs dropped, on an overwhelmingly civilian population, in such a small area, in this short a time period. In October 2024, the estimated tonnage dropped stood at 75,000-80,000 tonnes. Estimates now have the tonnage of dropped munitions upon Gaza of beyond 100,000 tonnes. Between 1940-1945, U.S. and British air forces dropped an estimated 2.7 million tons of bombs on Europe, half of that amount on Germany. Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam were all heavily saturated from the air in America’s genocide in South East Asia during the 60s and 70s. Iraq was bombed for over 20 years by American and allied forces with different periods of heightened bombings. These were huge areas of land in comparison to Gaza, which is the most densely populated living space in the world.

These deadly weapons and their aerial delivery systems are majority western designed, built and delivered; the F-35s, F-15, F-16s and Apache attack helicopters, as well as a huge drone fleet. The resupply of the armed forces carrying out this aerial genocide of the Palestinian people, has also been carried out by the UK/US/Other Western allies, and delivered through our key RAF base in Cyprus.

The use of hundreds of RAF spy flights to provide the armed forces which are carrying out this genocide of the Palestinian people, with real-time and operational intelligence, is also now widely known, after being covered-up by the British mainstream media for over 21 months.

There were two video leaks of the use of this mass aerial violence upon the Palestinian people over the weekend, which captures only a tiny fraction of the scale of this violence. The first video, leaked to Al Jazeera, documented the obliteration of three Palestinian men in Gaza City on 18th May 2025, as they attempted to retrieve the body of another victim of this crime of the century. Given the size of the explosion, it was likely that this was a targeted attack via the occupations huge and deadly drone fleet, many of which will have been either built/researched or had parts supplied for by UK/US based companies.

The second video, also obtained by one of the occupation’s other prime targets, Al Jazeera, documents the murder of a 12 year old girl, Amna, pictured carrying a water can, in destroyed Jabalia, northern Gaza, date unclear. This was ‘achieved’ through another suspected targeted attack by an occupation drone.

Read those two paragraphs back, watch the videos, and ask yourself again why people in the UK have been moved to take to the streets and to take direct action against those companies involved in the genocide, or perhaps ask yourself why you have not.

The explanation, and the only explanation there has ever been, for this level of use of targeted death and destruction upon a civilian population is to commit genocide and annihilation, to destroy Palestinian existence within Gaza, completely. This targeted and literal destruction of Palestinian life and bodies, is the entire point of the violence. It is a complete extermination attempt, being watched, and supported, by the western world’s establishment, whilst being openly admitted to and bragged about by the perpetrators, again, and again, and again.

Under international law, the occupying colony, which is what it is, has zero right, ZERO right, to use ANY violence upon the people they occupy, let alone to this extreme and sadistic level. They simply have the responsibility to end the genocide and to end the foundational military occupation and apartheid of Palestinian land and life.

This genocide will only be stopped, by being stopped.

A regional or international military intervention to protect the Palestinian people should have been launched a very, very long time ago, decades before October 7th 2023.

Now it is simply an imperative action if the world wishes to see the continuation of the existence of a Palestinian people on their indigenous lands, in Occupied Palestine.

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