Nearly 500 Days of Genocide: Will President Biden Leave with a legacy of facilitating genocide? Dear Email, As the world welcomes 2025, Palestinians are facing yet another harrowing chapter in their struggle for survival. The New Year has already been marked by relentless violence, underscoring the reality of Israel's continued genocide and systematic oppression, now stretching into nearly 500 days of unbridled devastation. Israel’s genocidal campaign, enabled by unwavering U.S. support, shows no sign of abating. While Israelis celebrated New Year's Eve in Tel Aviv, Palestinians in Gaza were fleeing relentless Israeli bombardments. Families mourned the loss of loved ones, sought shelter from the destruction, and salvaged what little they could from flooded tents. As of January, Gaza's population has fallen by at least 6% since October 2023, a statistic that highlights the scale of Israel’s extermination campaign. Entire neighborhoods have been leveled, families displaced, and an already devastated healthcare system pushed to the brink. One of the most horrifying events of the New Year was the Israeli military's raid on a Gaza hospital, targeting the very spaces meant to provide sanctuary and healing amid destruction. This brazen attack on medical infrastructure is not an isolated incident but part of a pattern of targeting healthcare workers, first responders, journalists, and all those responsible for sustaining vulnerable lives in Gaza. Those on the front lines of truth and survival are systematically silenced, wounded, or killed—an unmistakable tactic to erase both Palestinian lives and their narratives. In the West Bank, the situation is also dire. The New Year has brought reports of escalated settler violence, continued land theft, and military raids targeting Palestinian communities. In East Jerusalem, home demolitions and forced displacements show no signs of abating as Israel deepens its apartheid regime. These actions reflect a calculated and systematic effort to erase Palestinians from their homeland. The silence—or worse, complicity and partnership—of the international community, particularly the U.S., has more than emboldened Israel's atrocities. Billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars continue to fund the genocide, broader occupation, military campaigns, and violations of international law. The Biden administration's refusal to act over the last year, paired with Congress's failure to hold Israel accountable, sends a clear statement: Palestinian lives are expendable, and international law has been thoroughly discredited and overlooked. As we enter 2025, AJP Action reaffirms its demand on the U.S. government to immediately suspend all military aid to Israel in accordance with international law and to facilitate an end to the ongoing genocide in Gaza. From the very beginning, the United States has held the power to stop Israel’s atrocities—but only if it were to choose justice over complicity. With just days remaining in the current administration, President Biden can decide how history will remember him: A president who attempted to redeem himself through a final demand for accountability–or one who served as an executioner of the Palestinian people until his last day in office.  In solidarity,
Americans for Justice in Palestine Action |
