Six years after the Great March of Return

Abstract

All eyes are on Rafah. A week ago, the southern Gaza city, home to 1.5 million war-displaced Palestinians, became the focus of worldwide attention as Israel carried out a series of illegitimate and heinous attacks. The four attacks on a refugee camp, categorized under international humanitarian law as a protected civilian object, resulted in 200 people injured and 95 civilians killed so far. The current conflict between Israel and Palestine, which has been exacerbated in the current year of 2024, already exceeds 34,000 dead. Given the real and imminent risk of genocide, it is necessary to review the path that international organizations should follow to not only protect the disadvantaged populations of this conflict, but also to plan an adequate resistance to this extreme escalation of the conflict.