It no longer takes expertise in geopolitics to understand what is unfolding in Gaza, only basic common sense and a functioning moral compass. The proposed “humanitarian transit areas” in Gaza, as outlined in recent reports, are nothing short of euphemistic cover for large-scale, controlled internment zones. In clearer terms: a modern-day concentration camp cloaked in humanitarian language.
This is not relief. This is forced containment amid an ongoing genocide. And it is being executed with increasing international consent, or worse, indifference. The so-called civilised world, from Washington to Brussels, is not only looking away, it is actively aiding, arming, and now sanitising the horror with policy jargon. When the bar for justice is so low that genocide must be politely debated, we must ask: what does global governance even stand for anymore?
Meanwhile, protestors calling out this atrocity face police batons, professional consequences, and digital erasure. Governments quick to send arms to conflict zones are equally swift in silencing dissent at home. The moral rot is not just in the Middle East—it is metastasising across so-called democracies whose complicity grows more undeniable by the day.
We hope, perhaps naïvely, that this failure of humanity will one day be acknowledged in full. But we also perceive a reckoning: one in which future generations will not merely judge but hold to account the architects and enablers of this cruelty. The record is being written in real time, and history will not look kindly upon those who stood by, renamed ethnic cleansing as a humanitarian strategy, and patted themselves on the back for doing so.
This is not peacemaking. It is stage-managed suffering. And no amount of spin can disguise its grotesque inhumanity.