Palestine’s Plight, US Ignorance

Together with the world leaders, Indonesia also needs to actively lobby the US, which is now also under pressure from its domestic public to fundamentally revise its policies toward Israel.

After Hamas and Israel agreed to a ceasefire, the world can be relieved, at least temporarily.

An 11-day successive Israeli bombardment of Gaza has killed at least 243 Palestinians, many of them women and children. Apart from the thousands who were injured, more than 70,000 people became refugees among the 500 or so office buildings, residences, schools and health facilities that were destroyed and turned into rubble. Amid the threat of the pandemic and subsequent war that could break out again at any time, without electricity, water and public facilities. "If there is a hell on Earth," said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, "it is the lives of children in Gaza."