TEHRAN- In a joint press conference, UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken reiterated their support for the Israeli regime on Thursday.  

They reiterated their respective countries' position to side with the Zionist entity from day one of the war on Gaza.

Some other governments and leaders, in the region and beyond, who have no moral compass as civilians are being slaughtered by Israeli bombs have effectively taken side with the regime as well, something that will not be forgotten in the history books. 

The head of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), a major aid agency, has said that countries who are supporting the Israeli regime with weapons have a "permanent stain on their reputation". 

Jan Egeland, the NRC Secretary General, sounded the alarm over the plight of Palestinian civilians.

"The pulverising of Gaza now ranks amongst the worst assaults on any civilian population in our time and age. Each day, we see more dead children and new depths of suffering for the innocent people enduring this hell," he warned.

More than 7,000 children have been killed by the Israeli onslaught on Gaza. Thousands more are trapped under the rubble. 

Palestinians in the besieged enclave say there is no safe place for them to avoid Israeli attacks across the entire Gaza Strip.

The majority of the residents in the enclave have been displaced, with their homes either completely or partially destroyed by indiscriminate Israeli attacks. 

A major concern that has been echoed by the NRC. 
“Across the Gaza Strip, almost the entire population – 1.9 million people – have been displaced. Nearly two in three homes are now damaged or destroyed.  Amid relentless air, land and sea attacks, thousands of families are forced to relocate from one perilous zone to another," the NRC stated.

Rights organizations and UN bodies have expressed alarm over the inaction of many countries around the world, despite the harrowing scenes emerging from the Israeli massacres in Gaza. 

“Our colleagues in Gaza ask themselves a simple question: how is it that these atrocities are beamed across the world for all to witness, and yet so little is done to stop them? the NRC said. 
It further went on to warn that “countries supporting Israel with arms must understand that these civilian deaths will be a permanent stain on their reputation."

Most of the weapons that the Israeli regime receives comes from the United States in the form of free military aid to the tune of some $3.8 billion annually at the expense of American taxpayers’ money. 
All current U.S. military aid to the regime is part of the 10-year $38 billion memorandum of understanding signed between the two sides in 2016. 

This is besides the other sophisticated arms that the U.S. ships to Israel. 
Other countries, including the UK, Italy, Canada, and Germany, also provide the regime with a significant amount of weapons. 

However, as the researcher William Hartung recently wrote in The Nation, the Israeli regime's "arsenal, and its arms industry, are by and large made in, and financed by, the USA."
An investigation by Amnesty International has revealed that among the weapons America has sent to the regime that are killing children in Gaza are U.S.-made Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM). 

The organization said it had found fragments of the JDAM in destroyed homes in central Gaza after Israeli strikes in October. 

Amnesty International said the attacks hit family homes in Deir al-Balan, an area south of Gaza that the Israeli military had ordered residents in the north to evacuate to. 

The international rights group says its teams did not find any indication of "military objectives" at the sites and has called for the attacks to be investigated as war crimes. 

"The fact that U.S.-made munitions are being used by Israeli military in unlawful attacks with deadly consequences for civilians should be an urgent wake-up call to the Biden administration," said Agnes Callamard, Amnesty International's secretary general. 

"The U.S.-made weapons facilitated the mass killings of extended families," she added. 
Despite this, according to the NRC, "today, more than 750,000 people are crowded into just 133 shelters. Tens of thousands live on the streets of southern Gaza, where, under bombardment, they are forced to improvise basic shelters from whatever they can get hold of. The winter rains have arrived, and so have infectious diseases, just as public health services have been utterly paralysed." 

Although Gaza has been damaged in previous Israeli wars on the blockaded enclave and rebuilt, the current scale of the devastation is of a different order.

The global aid agency has demanded an immediate ceasefire, saying, "Only a cessation of hostilities will allow us to ensure effective relief to the two million who now require it."

Adding to the scenes of bombardment, chaos, and the panic among Gaza's residents, "severe restrictions on aid access have aggravated the situation, leading to starvation among Gaza's population," the NRC emphasized. 

Critics argue this is another permanent stain on countries who have decided to stay largely silent when aid agencies are warning about starvation among Palestinians stuck in what has been described as the world's largest open air prison, with almost half of the population under the age of 18. 

Critics say the inaction of countries who have chosen to only publish statements of concern from time to time amid the slaughter of more than 7,000 children is not only shameful but also cowardly and their position will go down in the history books. 

The NRC concluded that "the killing of thousands of innocent children and women, the siege on an entire civilian population, and the trapping of bombarded civilians behind closed borders in Gaza are also crimes under international law. There must also be accountability for this, from political and military leaders as well as those who provided arms and support. This military campaign can in no way be described as ‘self-defense’.    

"The situation in Gaza is a total failure of our shared humanity. The killing must stop."

The question is, will the international community have the courage and leadership to prevent a potential genocide?