Two days after the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel must "immediately halt its military offensive in Rafah", Israeli Defence Force air strikes set fire to a refugee camp in the Tel al-Sultan district in the north west of the city, killing 45. Netanyahu called it a "tragic mishap", but less than 48 hours later, bombed to death 37 more people in the same camp.

    This camp, located in a supposed "safe zone" is overcrowded with Palestinians fleeing Rafah, where the IDF offensive already began 3 weeks ago. So much for the "legally binding" ICJ court rulings! Just like the numerous UN resolutions against “illegal" settlements in the West Bank, they are worthless. These international organisations just throw up their hands in horror, while watching the massacre unfolding!

    So why should Israeli Prime minister Netanyahu and his minister of defence Gallant, worry about arrest warrants for war crimes, issued by the International Criminal Court? They're accused of "intentional starvation as method of warfare". But Gallant was clear from the very beginning: he said he’d enforce a "complete siege on Gaza... no electricity, no food, no water, no gas – it’s all closed". And that's exactly what they are implementing.

    Israel has seized the Rafah border crossing with Egypt and has since closed it to all aid. Lorries stuck in Egypt have had to destroy thousands of rotting eggs and other perishable food. The UN has had to suspend all food distribution in Rafah.

    Anyway, the ICC arrest warrants can only be enforced by its member states. And of course, Sunak has already opposed this court, saying the warrants were "deeply unhelpful" - parroting Biden, who said they were "scandalous". As if the scandal wasn’t the extermination of Palestinians in Gaza!

    But because of the general elections in both countries, Sunak and Biden cannot ignore this bloodbath. So they pretend to distance themselves from their Israeli ally, resurrecting the "two-state" solution from the dead. A "two-state" solution, where the Palestinians would be kept in their place by a Palestinian Authority, backed by the imperialist powers to run Palestine, "the day after"...

    Indeed, their "solution" just means keeping the Palestinian population imprisoned, while using the Israeli population as prison guards.

    No, ultimately all borders in the Middle East, created by the controlling imperialist powers, must be wiped out. And it's only the working class - of the whole region, regardless of "nationality" - which can and will carry out this task.