"If it looks like genocide, if it 'sounds' like genocide and if the perpetrators call it genocide, then it is genocide" cit. Andrew Murray, vice president of Stop the War Coalition

In the last few hours the number of victims of Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip has reached 10,000, almost half of whom are children. For weeks now, Israel has been bombing refugee camps, hospitals, ambulances, power plants and water infrastructure.

In Gaza, bakeries no longer make bread and soon the only water left for the civilian population will be water from the sea.

Eighty-eight UN employees and 175 health workers were killed by Israeli shelling.

Meanwhile, evidence suggests Israeli use of white phosphorus bombs in both northern Gaza and southern Lebanon. Needless to turn around: we are witnessing a genocide, whose ultimate goal seems to be to 'empty' Gaza completely, reducing it to a desert heath 'cleared' of its population.

As women and men for peace, we ask ourselves, what level of atrocity is still bearable before the international community imposes a ceasefire? How many more war crimes, how many more thousands of victims will we be forced to witness before this collective punishment on a defenceless population stops?

The slaughter must stop now, a cease-fire is needed.

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