What is happening in the Israeli-occupied West Bank should be a wake-up call to us all. It is not just in Gaza that the Zionist state is committing genocide. Take a look at the following book extract, for example:

“It was at this overcrowded hospital that the delegation received a shocking introduction to the effects of the measures being taken by the Israeli authorities against the Palestinian people. Of course, not every casualty was seen, but the general picture can be obtained from the following list of casualties:

A young man with five children was chased by Israeli soldiers to the roof of his two-storey home and deliberately thrown to the ground; he broke both legs and is now paralysed from the waist down.

A 16-year-old boy was shot in the spine, paralysing him, and he has lost both his spleen and a kidney.

A 23-year-old man was shot in the leg and following shoddy treatment in an Israeli hospital he developed gangrene and his leg was amputated.

A young girl of 16 was suffering the effects of nerve gas (not tear gas) which causes hallucinations, suffocating spasms of the throat and lungs and lck-jaw. The doctors do not know the make-up of the ‘red gas’ and are, therefore, unable to treat the patients effectively.

A 25-year-old man was shot and, whilst lying on the ground injured, the [Israeli] army drove a jeep over his neck. He is now completely paralysed from the neck down.

Numerous X-rays were seen, illustrating vividly the horrific effects of the high velocity rifles and soft-nosed bullets used by the Israelis. The bullets splinter on impact causing massive internal injuries over an area far greater than a ‘normal’ bullet wound.”

That snapshot wasn’t written recently. It is taken from a small booklet that I wrote in April 1988 following the visit of a delegation of British Muslims to Occupied Palestine just weeks earlier. Even then we were able to witness and document the fact that young........

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