World watches in silence as Israel completes Gaza’s ‘usurpation’

With more than three-quarters of the Strip now under control of Israeli forces, world leaders do nothing to stop the ongoing genocide

THE WORLDVIEW

May 25, 2025

THE day appears to be fast approaching when Israeli armed forces will declare “total victory” and announce that the Gaza Strip has been almost entirely cleared of Palestinians. That fateful announcement is likely to come within weeks of the recent conflict with India, from which Pakistan emerged victorious, and the official visit to the Middle East by US President Donald Trump — a visit during which not a single word was publicly uttered about the ongoing genocide in the occupied territory.

None of the Arab or Gulf leaders broke their silence on this critical issue, and President Trump also remained mute. Yet, lavish gifts were bestowed upon the American president in what seemed to be a deliberate gesture of appeasement.

According to a report by Al Jazeera, over 75 per cent of the Gaza Strip already appears to have been cleared of its Palestinian population. Citing the enclave’s Government Media Office, the report states that Israeli forces now effectively control 77 per cent of the territory’s total land area.

“This has been achieved through direct ground incursions, the deployment of occupation forces in residential and civilian zones, heavy fire control preventing Palestinian citizens from accessing their homes, lands, and property, and through unjust forced eviction policies,” the statement read.

It continued: “The ongoing genocide, ethnic cleansing, colonialism, aggression, and control over the vast majority of Gaza reflects a deliberate Israeli political objective to impose a ‘final solution’ by force, in blatant defiance of all international laws and norms.”

The media office urged the United Nations and the wider international community to intervene and halt Israel’s territorial expansion.

This reporter, however, believes strongly that little meaningful action will be taken — at least not until Israel formally proclaims its “total victory”. Appeals made recently by European countries, including France and the United Kingdom, have already been dismissed by the Israeli prime minister. And that, for all practical purposes, seems to be the end of the matter.

In the years to come, we will no doubt look back on these days and reflect on how our own armed forces might have intervened meaningfully but ultimately did not — ostensibly due to strategic constraints or the pressing imperative of self-preservation. We will likely express regret about our Arab brethren too, lamenting that they failed to act decisively to prevent the forced expulsion of Palestinians from their homes.

And we will only do so periodically — until, eventually, we will start forgetting the matter. We will forget how a ruthless state expelled an entire nation from its homeland and the world looked on in silence. The international humanitarian organisations, the UN system, and the global media all bore witness — and yet they did nothing to halt the genocide and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.