The public perceptions of life in Gaza and the Palestinian Territories is being shaped by television news footage of aid ships being loaded up with humanitarian supplies, reports of US engineers building emergency docking piers, dramatic aerial footage of  food, medicine and supplies being dropped by parachute from the back of US cargo planes.

The political headlines are being led by calls from the US, the UK, France and others for  an immediate ceasefire.

But, behind all the window dressing, the reality is that Palestinian people, men , women and children, continue to be murdered by the bombs, arms, ammunition and technology supplied by those very countries.

While the US projects its ‘humanitarian’ response to the genocide in Gaza, it continues to supply and resupply the Israeli war machine. Its latest contribution has been 35 F35 attack aircraft and 2,000 blockbuster bombs, all of them destined for towns, villages, schools, hospitals, clinics and refugee camps.

For the beleaguered people of Gaza this spells further death and destruction, but the BBC described this latest arms supply as ‘ a sign of a thaw in strained ties’ between the US and Israel.

The United States, the UK, France, NATO the EU and other apologists for the Israeli campaign of genocide, continue to disregard international law. They withhold funds from UNWRA which could help starving people. 

In January the United Nations International Court of Justice delivered an interim ruling in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel, ordering Israel to prevent genocidal acts in Gaza.The US, the UK, France and NATO are still providing financial support, political cover and armaments allowing Israel to pursue its genocidal campaign.

Legal advice to the UK Government warning it that its continued military support to Israel places it in breach of international law, remains unpublished and therefore unacted upon.

Behind the manufactured headlines and the public relations campaigns they hope will cover their tracks, the funders and suppliers of Israel’s murder machine continue their contemptuous disregard for real public opinion, for international law and for the Palestinian people.

Protesting and highlighting the ongoing genocide in Gaza is only one part of the campaign supporting the Palestinian people. As much effort needs to be applied to the disinformation, double talk and contempt for people and the humanitarian law that provides the cover for the funders and suppliers of Israel’s mass murder machine.