A senior European Commission (EC) spokesperson has refused to say that Israel should pay to rebuild Gaza after its two-year campaign of genocide and wholesale destruction – despite the EC saying that Russia should pay to ‘rebuild’ Ukraine, which has been far less damaged.

Asked by Italian journalist Gabriele Rosana, the spokeswoman would only call it “definitely an interesting question” but one on which she had no comment to make:

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has calculated that Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its war on Palestinian homes, schools, hospitals, industry, commercial buildings, water treatment, and sanitation have left more than 55,000,000 tons of rubble and that the rebuilding will cost at least seventy billion dollars and take years, far beyond any comparable regional disaster. Thousands of victims remain buried under the rubble and Israel refuses to allow any heavy equipment into Gaza to begin clearing the destruction as survivors reel from their psychological devastation.

Even after two years of inflicting a Holocaust on the people of Gaza as well as attacking most of its neighbours and murdering and torturing international aid workers, Israel continues to enjoy impunity from governments and organisations that have covered for and abetted its crimes all along.

By Skwawkbox

This post was originally published on Canary.