Dr. Hüseyin Kâmi BÜYÜKÖZER
NEW MASSACRE OF CIVILIANS IN A GAZA SCHOOL
In the early hours of Saturday, August 10, more than 100 people were brutally murdered and more than 150 seriously injured as a result of a merciless bombardment by the Israeli Army against the Al-Tabin school in Gaza City. The victims, mostly women and children, were gathered for the Islamic dawn prayer, a sacred moment that was desecrated with unprecedented violence.
It has been reported that the school was the target of two premeditated and malicious attacks: one against the prayer room and another against a floor reserved exclusively for women, in an act that can only be described as an abominable mass execution. 90 percent of the occupants of both targets have been exterminated. The wounded, many of them on the verge of death, are being transferred to the Arab National Hospital, according to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa.
This attack, carried out with bombs weighing more than a thousand kilos each, is an act of genocide and a flagrant violation of all ethical, moral and international law principles. It is a crime against humanity perpetrated in broad daylight, which the international community, with its silence and complicity, continues to allow.
The occupying State has not only massacred innocent civilians in Gaza, but has extended its aggression towards its non-belligerent neighbours, violating their borders and attacking their civilian populations. This chain of crimes can no longer be ignored or excused under the pretext of security. It is a premeditated and systematic attack that aims to erase the identity and existence of a people.
The Islamic Centre of the Argentine Republic strongly condemns this ongoing genocide and calls on all religious, interreligious dialogue and human rights institutions to raise their voices and efforts to stop this barbarity. We demand an immediate and definitive ceasefire and the implementation of the United Nations resolutions so that, once and for all, peace and justice may prevail in the region.
“You alone we worship and You alone we call for help.” (The Generous Quran, Al-Fatiha, The Opening, 1-5).
