Of the thousands of bombs that have fallen – and fall still – on Gaza, there is one to which Navi Pillay returns: a lone shell, fired by the Israel Defense Forces at the Al-Basma fertility clinic in December 2023. A single strike that wiped out 4,000 embryos in a moment.
The strike was “intended to prevent births” among Palestinians in Gaza, says Pillay, the former chair of the UN’s Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Territory of Palestine and Israel.
“That clinic stands alone in the grounds, separate from the rest of the hospital buildings. They didn’t fire on the hospital – if the excuse is that Hamas is hiding in the hospitals, they didn’t touch the hospital. They came straight to this building and targeted and hit the nitrogen tanks that kept the embryos alive.”
Pillay cites the attack not as a totality, but signal example, one among “a great number” of incidents, that led to Pillay’s commission finding Israel has committed genocide in Gaza.
“Children who were meant to be born from these … reproductive specimens will never exist,” an expert medical witness told the commission’s investigation. “Families will be forever changed and bloodlines may end.”
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Someone told me I looked sad today. Actually, I'm sad every day, but today I just don't have the energy to hide it. I haven't recovered from anything. All the things I pretend to forget are still inside me. I'm just good at hiding them..
When I see the immense scale of the destruction in Gaza, I am horrified. Thousands of tons of rubble as far as the eye can see, and the smell of gunpowder is everywhere...
The suffering doesn't end after war. I wonder how a child here copes after losing their father, and how a mother can continue her life without her children. There are other wars, wars where you don't hear the sounds of shells and missiles, but wars rage deep within every person in Gaza. These are psychological wars that people endure in silence. We sleep with memories and wake up with memories...
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