The night of Gaza war is bringing great humanitarian disaster, and recent reports confirmed that more than forty thousand people died in the course of the warfare. Such deaths are estimated by the Health Ministry of Hamas, for the latter works in the besieged Gaza Strip only. Although the humanitarian crisis in the war is unfolding gradually, it is continually worsening and scholars and governmental institutions are looking for the solution to it.
The war in its current state has turn out to be protracted and it has brought down structures and killed many civilians. It also continues that the hospitals are overcrowded, supply is low and even the basic amenities such as water and electricity have also become scarce.
Civilians who stay nearby densely population area are in a bad shape they have no place to go while being trapped in between army operations situation, gets worse and loss of life increases as operation heat up with more bombardment and ground assault.
Since the onset of hostilities, the engagement of Hamas in the war became a focus of attention in the political scene of the world. While a few perceive the body as a political party for Palestinians and a resistive movement,49 most world nations including United States and countries of the European Union view it as a terrorist group.
This greatly influences the geopolitical nuclear ‘hybrid warfare’ and has substantial consequences for the approach of many existent states to the conflict. As the conflict prolongs, more and more reports of war crimes and violation of the norms of international law and humanitarian disasters appear, and all the warring parties accuse each other of provoking the escalation of the conflict. The above stated reasons for the war remain well and alive while the real victims of the taken actions are the civilians.
The increased attacks have also decorated the powers that be in world with sensitive responds. Lately there has been a number of appeals from the United Nations and other human rights organization in favor of cease fires but the concept of peace continues to remain unattainable. The humanitarian practices of different regional or interntional intercessors, which include power and diplomacy, have to date, produced no sustained remedy. This is so because there are long lasting issues for instance the Middle East Conflict between Palestine and Israel, some boundary issues, as well as some historical wrongs that are embedded in most of the Middle Eastern countries.
What makes this continuing violence more destructive is that it is happening in some of the largest population centres on the globe. Gaza, per se, is a densely populated area in which impact density has transformed the region into an active theatre of war, in which each explosion or military action is likely to kill or main large numbers of civilians.
It is women and children and even the elder persons that continue to suffer most as their homes, schools, and even hospitals are targeted. It is regretful to state that a number of people in the war zone cannot anticipate to flee because of barricades and other restricted movement contributes to the severity of the humanitarian situation.
At the end of this war the region will be stained with blot which will take at least one generation to wipe off. It will be a nightmare of gargantuan proportion to rebuild Gaza. The extent of destruction is that they will have to build new houses, new school, new hospitals and on and on while for the living, there is post-traumatic stress disorder which will run a lifecycle. Terror, losses, and ordinary people’s displacement are going to remain in the people’s memory and will be inherited from one generation to another.
It is a matter of discussion now, the fact that other international actors have also been drawn into the conflict. Whereas some of the countries call for even sharper actions in this regard, others call for non-interference asserting that it only aggravates the situation.
Some of the non regional countries that have stakes in the results of the conflict are Egypt and Turkey and Qatar which has been seen attempting to negotiate cease fire agreements which have however failed. The international community however, is still split with some being genuine about supporting one of the parties while the others are struggling to meddle in the conflict.
Even among the dead and injured, simple laws of supply and demand are gradually emerging from the wreckage after having been buried beneath the debris, especially in Gaza prior to the war where poverty and unemployment were rampant.
People, buildings, companies, and houses are destroyed, therefore the reconstruction and subsequent reinvention of the economy is much harder in the post-war stage. Similarly, the conflict erodes the regional security in the neighbors which can be affected either by the violence spreading or refugee problems while the Middle East region remains not sure about its associations with the conflicting parties and other related aggressions.
In any case, if it is permissible to kill in war, then the war in Gaza has claimed over 40,000 lives, readying the price of the struggle. With the actions that both parties are currently taking it looks like they are both working to erect a high wall to make it almost impossible to go to the solution. While the political actors are occupied with this geostrategic confrontation, people are suffering for the course that the leaders of the world states. The humanitarian crisis is enormous, it is for this reason that the focus cannot be overemphasized in one way or the other in the search for how the killings can be stopped.
