On November 29, 2025, the world observed the International Day of Solidarity with Palestine, taking a page out of history. Dublin, Barcelona, Brussels, Berlin, London, Paris, Vienna, in city after city, people came out in their thousands.
Francesca Albanese and Greta Thunberg joined the resilient dockworkers of Genoa, Italy, who were the first to block all arms shipment from their ports to Israel. Spain and other countries have followed. Students, mothers and daughters, workers and teachers, they all walked, hand in hand, in alliance with the ravaged people of Palestine, the dead women and the children, and those still under the rubble.
A young female doctor who visited Al Shifa hospital in Gaza said that in the ruins, there are perhaps more than 1500 bodies of doctors, para-medics, nurses and patients. Another Australian female doctor who returned from Gaza, said, amidst the amputated bodies, including that of children, the doctors and nurses have been working tirelessly for two years, homeless, starving, without medicine or equipment, in bombed hospitals.
It was for them, the 220 plus brave Palestinian journalists, murdered, the little children who are back to make-shift schools, and the 1.5 million internally displaced survivors trapped in dilapidated tents in this freezing cold, with the constant fear of being bombed, now flooded with rain water – it is for them that the world came out in huge numbers on November 29.
Who says the genocide is over, asked Francesca Albanese. Despite the Trump Plan – almost every day Gaza and its refugee camps have been bombed, killing scores.
Meanwhile, Israeli violence has escalated in the West Bank while Trump has categorically said the West Bank will not be allowed to be annexed. Well, the West Bank has been annexed long ago by Israel, with an ageing and discredited Mahmoud Abbas still pretending to be at the helm.
Some videos are so graphic that one can’t believe that a government and its forces, in the age of international law and alleged modernity, would actually do it, again and again, and still be able to get away with it. Repeatedly.
Benjamin Netanyahu cares a damn, though he and his sick regime, is loathed across the world, as was witnessed in the United Nations meet recently when he addressed a near-empty hall, with most nations deciding to walk out right on his face. Predictably, among others, the new Mayor of New York has categorically stated that he would be arrested under international law if he sets foot in the city. An international pariah, warrants have been issued against him by the International Criminal Court on November 21, 2024. The charges: “Allegedly responsible for the war crimes of starvation as a method of warfare and of intentionally directing an attack against the civilian population; and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts from at least 8 October 2023 until at least 20 May 2024.”
Two videos have yet again shocked the world, and they are running all over social media across multiple channels. A small boy, shot, is lying on the ground, perhaps screaming for help. A few Israeli soldiers are chatting nearby, totally oblivious of the injured boy. Are they cracking a sick joke?
The boy tries to get up, but he just can’t. Later, he is declared dead once he is taken to the hospital. This is deliberate murder by the IDF of an innocent child.
The other video is more graphic and tells the same old story. This latest video is running across the social media, including in Dropsite News, one of the credible global media these days, run with people’s funding.
In Jenin, West Bank, armed Israeli forces arrive outside what looks like run-down garage with a huge shutter. Two young men are asked to come out, their hands raised. Then they are told go back. As they bend down below the shutter, they are shot dead. This is ‘Execution’ in plain day light. The video is not grainy. The hand that holds it is not shaking.
It has been reported that the Israeli army and police have said that they were investigating the killings, which was filmed from several angles, including by the AFP.
Reports say that Israel’s fanatically extremist National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir backed the forces who opened fire, saying: “Terrorists must die!” The UN rights office spokesman said the incident came as “killings of Palestinians by Israeli security forces and settlers in the occupied West Bank have been surging, without accountability, even in the rare cases when investigations are announced”. He said “statements by a senior Israeli government official” seeking “to absolve Israeli security forces of responsibility” raised “serious concerns about the credibility of any future review or investigation conducted by any entity that is not fully independent from the government”
In a country where 60 per cent of people apparently believe that the on-going genocide is not enough, that all Palestinians and babies must be slaughtered, that Israel is beyond all norms of human conduct and international law, Ben Gvir or Bibi, are merely symbolic ‘icons’ of a pathologically sick society. Witness the fact the rapists of a brutalised Palestinian prisoner inside prison, by men of the security forces, were hailed, and showcased on Israeli television!
Are they indeed ‘role models’?
The UN has called the Jenin murders an “apparent summary execution”. One hopes Donald Trump gets to see it as well, and so does Keir Starmer, and the German PM, Friedrich Merz — committed suppliers of the murder machines and bombs to Benjamin Netanyahu, as the genocide takes no pause in Gaza despite the ceasefire, endorsed by all the rich stooge Islamic monarchies and dictatorships in the Middle-East.
Even Germany, committed supporter of Israel, as an apparent reverse guilt complex for the Nazi-led Holocaust, has spoken, however fake it all seems. German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul in a joint press conference with Ayman Safadi, the Foreign Minister of Jordan, has been compelled to admit: “The violent acts of extremist settlers have reached a shocking scale there in recent weeks. They prevent olive farmers from harvesting, they devastate entire plantations, they set cars and houses on fire,” he said. “These settlers are openly pursuing the goal of driving Palestinians out of their communities…”
Safadi said: “Although the Israeli government says it does not condone this settler violence, we have yet to see any real progress in the West Bank that would actually prevent the settlers from carrying out these violent acts. These constant human rights violations, which border on genocide, must stop… Peace will become impossible if Israel annexes the West Bank in one way or another. That is illegal and contradicts the principles of international law.
Meanwhile, the E4 nations have stated that they are “deeply alarmed” by the rapid rise in violent attacks by armed Israeli settlers. Citing UN figures, they pointed out that 264 settler attacks were recorded in October. France, Germany, Italy, and the UK comprise the E4.
Italy witnessed a total shutdown and strike on November 28, 2025, the third against the genocide, even while the beleaguered Meloni regime supports Israel. Thousands came out on the streets.
Meanwhile, Netanyahu’s recent visit to India was cancelled, apparently due to security reasons. In a post on X, the Israeli PM’s office wrote, “Israel’s bond with India and between Prime Minister Netanyahu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi is very strong… The PM has full confidence in India’s security under PM Modi, and teams are already coordinating a new visit date.”
As the global pressure continues unabated against an isolated and hated Israel, and governments are forced to respond to relentless mass protests of their own citizens, the message from the International Solidarity Day with Palestine continues to reverberate. Many more governments like Spain, Slovenia, Ireland, Denmark, etc, are seeking sanctions, arms embargo and punishment for Tel Aviv. Across the world, Bibi is perhaps the most hated politician, and he knows that.
India was once a committed ally of Palestine. Yasser Arafat was an iconic figure, a close friend of India. Now, not even peaceful protests against the genocide are allowed here. In this context, if Bibi visits India in the days to come, and his arrival is celebrated as a grand welcome, it will surely tell another story.
The whole world is watching.
