THOSE are the words of Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), a UN body specially created for Palestinian refugees. In 2018, under the Trump presidency, the US pulled its funds from UNRWA.

Mr. Lazzarini described the situation in Gaza as having four toilets to be used by 4,000 displaced people. He said 2.2 million Palestinians in Gaza are “lacking basically everything.” He added that people are living on the floor. He told the BBC that the Palestinians are now feeling “a deep sense and feeling of abandonment from the international community.” He said the situation is Gaza is a violation of international law.

The world was told by the US and the EU that Russia violated international law so they took Russia to the UN where a majority of UN member-states condemned Russia. These same countries that demonized Russia not only refused to condemn Israel, but are in fact siding with Israel.

While 2.2 million Palestinians are starving and living in uncivilized conditions due to horrific destruction by Israel, American and EU leaders are rushing to Israel to offer comfort to the Jewish nation. All this is happening while the US and EU nations refuse to blame Israel for a strike on a hospital that killed over 500 people that included patients, doctors and nurses.

The American president arrived in Israel literally hours after the hospital massacre and without any evidence by any army of any nation or by the experts of any country, told the Israeli Prime Minister that the hospital bombing was the work of Hamas.

In the meantime, the Israeli army is offering the world a comical explanation on the bombing. The army released excerpts from what it said was an intercepted cell conversation between two Hamas militants that discussed a mistake in the hospital bombing by a rocket fired from Gaza.

What is so comical about this? After decades of knowing how fantastic Israel’s military technology is, why would two Hamas fighters be discussing their mistake of killing 500 Palestinians on an open line? A 16-year-old can use encrypted codes on a phone or computer, so why Hamas fighters do not know how to use that technology?

Here is an extract from the BBC that cast doubt on the Israeli claim that Gaza militants accidentally caused the demolition of the hospital. I quote: “There appeared to be an inconsistency in the Israeli briefing regarding where the rocket they believed caused the blast was fired from. The spokesman said it had been fired from a nearby cemetery – and there is a cemetery next to the hospital. But a map displayed by the spokesman showed a launch site further away. We have not been able to locate a cemetery there.”

Israel claims that if their air force had bombed the hospital, there would have been a huge crater in the ground. There is indeed a small crater that Israel points to as being caused by a makeshift rocket, thus planting in the mind of the world that it was a local rocket that struck the hospital. But the BBC has interviewed forensic experts who explain that Israel uses a type of bombing that can cause the small crater in the earth beneath the hospital.

I quote again: “Valeria Scuto, lead Middle East analyst at Sibylline, a risk assessment company, notes that Israel has the capacity to carry out other forms of air strike by drone, where they might use Hellfire missiles. These missiles generate a significant amount of heat but would not necessarily leave a large crater.”

An important piece of incriminating evidence that indicts the Israeli air force is that Gaza administrators of the hospital said that Israeli military officials told them three days before to vacate the hospital. The hospital compound is where civilians have been sheltering. The New York Times said to date there is no definitive finding on the cause.

The very US and EU nations that sought and received an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC) for Russia’s forceful removal of children from Ukraine to Russia are siding with the Israeli explanation that Hamas itself accidentally hit the hospital.

What we are all anxiously awaiting is if any country is going to request an arrest warrant from the ICC for Netanyahu. One country that is a member of the ICC that is likely to do that is South Africa. One suspects that if Netanyahu is not charged for war crimes, then some signatories to the ICC may withdraw. In fact, South African threatened to do so after the ICC’s warrant for Putin. The children are still alive in Russia. The children of Gaza are dying.