When I returned to my hometown near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank in January, the tension was clear. He reminded me of the second matter, which I witnessed directly as a child. There was fear, anxiety and increased feeling of uncertainty due to the ongoing attacks by Israeli settlers. The roads to and from the city were banned due to checkpoints, which led to waiting for hours and insulting the Palestinians trying to enter or leave.

Weeks before my visit, Israeli settlers set fire to my family’s land during the olive selection season. After that after a similar attack last summer and two others in the previous year, which destroyed property, crops and old olive trees.

My father told me that he was standing urgently, unable to extinguish the fire because armed settlers were protected by the Israeli forces. Even if the soldiers are not there to prevent any procedure to save the property, there will be no enough water available to put out the fire because it is converted by illegal settlements.

The situation throughout the occupied West Bank was getting worse for years, but violence escalated sharply after October 7, 2023. Only the past two years.

So far this year, this violence has witnessed a two -year -old shot in her head by an Israeli sniper inside her family’s home, and a 23 -year -old pregnant woman killed by Israeli fire. These are not isolated incidents, but they are part of a wider pattern where the Palestinians are killed in unprecedented ways, at unprecedented rates.

Israeli military raids on Palestinian homes and arbitrary detention have become a daily event. Of the 10,000 Palestinians remaining in Israeli prisons, More than 300 childrenMost of them do not face any charge and have no way to see if they see or when they will see their families again.

The villages are attacked, homes are demolished, and property is destroyed at accelerating rates. The structure of the profession – checkpoints, barriers and permits – has intensified and made daily life unbearable for the Palestinians. Nearly 900 new military checkpoints and barriers have been installed since October 7. This has led to sharp restrictions in movement and unrest on basic services, which depth of a actually distinct humanitarian crisis.

It has not become a “routine” – and it seems that the world is getting used to. Our new reality includes Israeli air strikes in refugee camps, hospitals under siege, and children who opened fire in front of their homes. Such incidents of brutal violence have become regular incidents, just as in Gaza.

Do you remember the first hospital attack in Gaza? The first targeting of the ownership of the displaced school? The first fire of an Israeli air strike is torn through the tents of the displaced and the burning of people alive? Now try to remember the last one. Such violent incidents have become so normalized that they are ultimately acceptable as a dark fact in a distant land.

The same is now happening in the occupied West Bank.

It also saved the representative of the children of the United Nations, I see how this dynamic is reflected on the international stage. The continuous lack of accountability has strengthened the Israeli forces a culture of impunity – allowing acts such as schools to bomb, burn homes, and kill humanitarian journalists and workers to become “natural”.

Even when Palestine is highlighted in global events, it appears that there is no difference. Earlier this month, the Palestinian -Israeli film No Other Land won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Film.

When accepting the award, the Palestinian director Basel is an introduction to his hope that his infant daughter would not have to live the same life in which he was currently living – in fear of the violence of the settlers, the demolition of homes and his forced displacement.

Although the film wins the highest awards (or perhaps because of that), the attacks of Israeli soldiers and settlers in Masafer Yatta, the Adra community, have only intensified. There was no meaningful procedure from the international community on this topic.

People can be forgiven because they are steeped in the face of uncompromising brutality that occurs for more than a year and a half now. It is just a person to feel numb. Moreover, many people were subjected to media coverage that used the Palestinians systematically, marginalizing their voices, and cutting the human relationship and sympathy.

But governments cannot be forgiven for not taking any action. They have a legal commitment to support international law. Its rules are not relative. They are not ready to negotiate.

The truth is that the shocking violations that take place in Gaza and the West Bank have been normalized because they are accepted by those who were entrusted with it to support the rules of international law.

We must ask international bodies and governments to take concrete steps to hold the perpetrators accountable for their actions. This includes the suspension of weapons and supportive mechanisms that challenge impunity for those who raise international law.

The global community must behave decisively to restore respect for international law. Countries that ignore these laws undermine the basis of the global system based on rules. While those who violate the rights of children and international law bear the final responsibility, all United Nations member states have an obligation under the Geneva Conventions to ensure commitment to these principles.

Weekly massacres are not normal. The population who brought to the brink of famine from man -made is not normal. Air strikes in refugee camps are not normal. The rights system of two levels based on sweat is not normal. Children’s detention, imprisonment and killing are not normal.

The time of negative observation has passed. The world must seek accountability, support human efforts, and refuse unacceptable acceptance. Every delay costs more lives. Every delay weakens the system designed to keep people all over the world safe. Only through teamwork, we can break this course from violence and ensure a future in which children in Palestine and Israel are protected, regardless of their race or religion.

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