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Muslim world is facing multiple problems but some issues, such as Palestine – Gaza crisis and foreign military occupation of their natural resources by the Western countries, pose existential challenges for many Muslim nations. The fact remains that process of Western domination that had started in seventeenth centuries with European colonization had accelerated after decline of Ottoman Empire. With Ottoman Empire’s downfall, in early twentieth centuries, Muslims lost their unitary and solidarity and the political center of gravity that provided an umbrella of safety and security to them, despite many internal difference and disputes.

Human history is replete of wars and conflicts and resultant loss of human lives and destruction of cities and mean of livelihood. However, most religions and civilizations have tried to develop philosophies and laws that would  curtail and limit the horrors of war. Islam has laid strict rules that governs the armed conflict, including complete prohibition for killing and harming noncombatants, elderly persons, women, and children. Islam even prohibits killing of animals, cutting of fruit trees and causing destruction that hinders human livelihood. Damaging or destroying religious or worship places is also strongly forbidden.

Israel continues to commit genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza, despite the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution for immediate ceasefire. Moreover, it is using its blockade to stop any humanitarian aid to reach up to Gazan people who are besieged and cramped up in south Gazan. Israe has already killed more than thirty-two thousand innocent Gazan Palestinians and injured around one hundred thousand. Gaza has been devastated, and destroyed, making it inhabitable. The UNSC is responsible to maintain international peace and security. The UN agencies have declared Gaza unsuitable for human life due to manmade disaster and catastrophe perpetrated by Israel.

Gazan Palestinians have been subjected to worst war crimes by unbridled Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) in its unrestrained brutal genocide. IDF is employing all possible means of mass killing, with the intent of carrying out ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, especially in Gaza, in the last five months. Though, this process has been going on in Palestine for last one hundred years. In the recent conflict, since October 2023, IDF has killed over thirty-two thousand Gazans, beside severely injuring over eighty thousand. Most of the victims are innocent civilians and non-combatants, mostly children, women, elderly persons, and sick and wounded patients, who were in hospitals. In addition to having destroyed most houses, hospitals, and schools indiscriminately, IDF has displaced two million inhabitants of Gaza, forcing them to escape to eastern part of the narrow strip. These Palestinian are living in southern Gazan under inhuman conditions, without any water, food, medicines, and shelter.

In last five months, the world has witnessed unprecedented bloodshed, carnage, genocide, and ethnic cleansing of Muslim Palestinians at Gaza by Israel. Though, Zionists have continued to commit the worst apartheid and terrible war crimes against Palestinians for last one hundred years, that were shamelessly supported and abetted by the United States and European countries, yet the recent wave of brutalities and callousness perpetrated by criminal minded leadership of Zionist Israel is unknown to human history. The intensity of crises and catastrophe faced by Gazan Palestinians has no parallel other than Christian crusades unleashed against Muslims of Levent.

The United States has again vetoed the United Nation Security Council (UNSC) resolution for immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Does the US want that Israel should continue its genocide and war crimes perpetrated for last four months? The US was the only country to vote against the draft text while UK abstained. Thirteen other members of UNSC voted in favour of the resolution that demanded immediate end of Israeli aggression. This is third consecutive refusal of the US to immediate cease-fire on humanitarian grounds. The US still claims to be a champion of global human rights.