The facts are indisputable; not only is allowing Israeli bombing missions to continue tantamount to enabling genocide, but there are real human costs to bear. We must stop the dehumanization and erasure of Palestinian lives.

No one can ever justify killing with even more killing, and it is far more urgent now to break the cycle of violence so that peaceful solutions based on international law and human rights are broached and critical assistance delivered.

The latest Israeli attack, on the Jabalia refugee camp, has killed at least 50 people, and it is hard to believe the attack was meant to target a high-ranking Hamas official. We must scrutinize all information from the occupying forces. They have the upper hand; they are Goliath.

More importantly, these attacks kill helpless and innocent children – more than 3,000 in the span of three weeks, according to the latest figures. One child's death is one too many, regardless of which side is mourning the loss.

Time is also ticking until the generators that power critical infrastructure such as hospitals start to run out of fuel, a resource that continues to be blocked by the Israeli border patrol.

The world is complicit in the loss of more than 8,000 innocent lives in Gaza, as the United States and its allies maintain their unconditional support for the Israeli onslaught on what is the world’s largest open-air prison.

Even the United Nations is unable to lead the international response, resulting in a complete loss of trust in the UN system and the norms that member states previously held.

This is the reason why you may be hearing about Gaza on pretty much every channel of information known to man. At least now, we know that there are far more people who stand by and recognize the Palestinian struggle than those who do not. There is no ignoring us.

In one of the most sobering commentaries on the failure of the current multilateral world order and status quo, Craig Mokhiber, the director of the New York Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, tendered his resignation to High Commissioner Volker Turk.

“The current wholesale slaughter of the Palestinian people, rooted in an ethno-nationalist settler-colonial ideology, in continuation of decades of their systematic persecution and purging, based entirely upon their status as Arabs, and coupled with explicit statements of intent by leaders in the Israeli government and military, leaves no room for doubt or debate,” Mokhiber states in the letter. It is to be his last communication before quitting in protest.

Human rights organizations and other UN officials have also accused Israel of disregarding the safety of civilians and even potential war crimes, especially in the case of the Jabalia bombing, the alleged use of illegal white phosphorus and strikes on facilities like the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital.

Other officials, including from within the ranks of the US State Department, have resigned over Washington’s policy on Israel, while Arab-Americans have grown disillusioned with President Joe Biden’s administration. Jews, Christians and Muslims around the world are calling for a cease-fire.

Lest the West needs more reasons to consider, failure to impose a cease-fire risks the spread of war beyond the Gaza-Israeli border, sets a precedent for other nations to take arms and erodes trust in the liberal international order.

The first step to preventing all of this is to end the killing.

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