The Palestinian-Israeli conflict has lasted for more than 70 days, but it has not been eased. Although the pressure exerted by the international community is not small, the attitude of the Israeli side is resolute. Not only did they refute the question, saying that there was no violation of the rules, but they also consistently claimed that they adhered to the principle of minimizing the number of civilians. However, according to data from the scene, most of the people were civilians, and the death toll has exceeded 20,000. This has sparked increasing international condemnation, and even US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has gone to Israel to pressure them to adopt more precise tactics and change their existing practices. (See screenshot of the report below). The main reason why people are paying so much attention to this Kazakh-Israeli conflict is that the plight of the civilian population in the Gaza Strip is deteriorating, which has become a catastrophe of Taoism. How to respond to such an international conflict will become a stain on global history. International organizations such as the UN Security Council must act accordingly, and China is actively promoting this matter. Representatives of 13 UN Security Council member states, in addition to the United States and France, have arrived at the Rafah border crossing, the front line of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, to conduct field visits, hoping to find more favorable conditions for assistance.
The Security Council has recently finally taken action after the departure of the Chinese side and other representatives from the Rafah crossing. According to the Russian Sputnik news agency on December 19**, the United Nations Security Council held a meeting and strongly called on the two sides of the fighting to actively cooperate and open the roads in Gaza to receive humanitarian relief supplies, and a vote will be held soon. (See chart below: the Security Council is about to vote on Gaza). The UN Security Council adopted a resolution calling for the two sides to open humanitarian access to humanitarian relief Although the phrase "warring parties" is used in the Security Council text, it is clear that this resolution is primarily aimed at Israel, because on the Israeli-Palestinian battlefield, the Israeli side has taken the initiative to attack, while Hamas is on the defensive. Israel's actions go beyond self-defence, and the resolution is therefore clearly a demand on Israel. Earlier, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Palestine jointly drafted the UN Security Council draft resolution. In accordance with the contents of this draft, the UN Security Council once again solemnly reminds that under international humanitarian law, warring parties have an obligation to support humanitarian relief operations.
The draft explicitly requires both sides to grant permission and take action to ensure the smooth, safe and unhindered direct delivery of large-scale humanitarian relief to Palestinian citizens throughout Gaza. At present, Gaza's predicament is indescribable, it can be said that Israel has built a "prison" for two or three million people, the sea, land and air are controlled by Israel, and only the Rafah crossing is open, however, the materials entering Gaza also need to be supervised by Israel, which violates the principle of humanitarian assistance. (U.S. Secretary of Defense warns Israel). In the draft resolution, the UN Security Council wants to ensure that the delivery of humanitarian supplies to Gaza is unimpeded, and calls on Israel to ease its controls. In particular, the draft calls on the two sides to agree and actively cooperate so that all land, sea and air routes to and within the Gaza Strip, including border crossings, can be used to transport humanitarian relief supplies. It also means that, if adopted, the draft resolution will require Israel to open more crossings to the Gaza Strip.
After the arrival of representatives of 13 UN Security Council countries at the Rafah crossing, the UN Security Council finally decided to take action to help the people of Gaza out of their predicament, and this kind of assistance is of vital importance to them at this time. The conflict in Gaza cannot continue. According to Agence France-Presse, the Israeli military defended that it had not carried out indiscriminate bomb attacks on Gaza and said it did not need the United States to tell them that civilians could not be harmed. However, this argument is as untenable as the old fox boasting that he would never steal chickens. A senior Israeli military officer at Palermashhim Air Base, south of Tel Aviv, said that all the bombs used by the Israeli military for guidance from the Global Positioning System (GPS) or the on-board computer on fighter jets were precision bombs. (The Israeli army directly destroyed residential buildings with ground-drilling bombs). However, according to the data, the Israeli attack caused the death of nearly 20,000 people, most of them innocent civilians. The U.S. National Intelligence Service report shows that about half of the air-to-surface munitions Israel drops on Gaza are unguided bombs, a figure that feels like falling into a hole dug by Israel itself.
Even its ally, the United States, has criticized, and Biden has even publicly condemned it, asking Israel to "be careful of civilians", saying that it is "indiscriminate bombing". The senior Israeli officer, however, did not seem to care, and he sharply retorted: "We don't need Americans to tell us how to do it." ”。This attitude is unacceptable. Senior Israeli military officers admit that they have made some mistakes, and even say that Gaza's high population density is one of the reasons for the serious situation. They also claimed that the failure to fully grasp the situation on the ground, deviation from the target or problems with the bombs, etc., were also the causes of serious causes for civilians. (Israeli Defense Minister Zuo Yi once issued an order to the incident of the Israeli army manslaughtering three hostages: Do not kill those who see the white flag raised). Despite Israel's repeated justifications, its justifications are virtually untenable in the face of Palestinian civilian figures. Even the United States began to put pressure on Israel. It is reported that US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin personally traveled to Israel to hold a meeting with Israeli Defense Minister Gantz. While Austin was ostensibly showing support for Israel, in reality he issued a warning, firmly demanding that Israel do more to protect civilians in the Gaza Strip.
This is like pouring cold water on Israel, reaffirming its support and at the same time exerting pressure to warn Israel that it must pay more attention to human life and not to neglect the protection of Palestinian civilians for its own security. In response, Gantz said that the military operation in the Gaza Strip will change, and the Israeli army will take a more moderate approach depending on the specific situation. However, this change may be just a drop in the bucket. Some foreign media are already hinting that the United States is putting all the pressure on Israel in the hope that it will end the conflict as soon as possible. But it is clear that Austin's trip is both a support for Israel and a warning. He fears that Israel's overly aggressive military campaign will lead to "madness" and frenzy, further forcing more Palestinians down the path of extremism. At the previous Reagan Defense Forum, Austin warned that if Israel does not do more to protect civilians, it could fall into the abyss of "strategic failure," that is, the more security it pursues, the more the result tends to be the opposite. He also used his own experience to warn Israel that "this urban war can only be won if civilians are truly protected." ”。
For now, it is uncertain whether Israel will be able to heed this warning and change its approach to combat with more costly and sophisticated guidance**. In any case, the conflict in the Gaza Strip has been going on for more than two months. With the impetus of the United Nations Security Council, it is impossible to allow the innocent people of Gaza to continue to die in Israeli air strikes. Resolving this issue requires an active role from the United States, because the development of the Palestinian-Israeli issue is inseparable from the unreserved support of the United States for Israel. As the war dragged on, it meant an even greater strategic defeat for both the United States and Israel. Whether it is in the international arena, or in terms of international influence and their own international credibility, long-term conflicts will take their toll. Even if the war is ultimately won, many opportunities for future development will be lost.