The UN's Silence Fuels Genocide in Plain Sight: The Ashes of Gaza.

The robes of international diplomacy are now stained with the blood of Gaza's children, and no amount of carefully worded resolutions can remove it. As apartment blocks crumble under airstrikes and hospitals beg for electricity to save the last of the wounded, the United Nations continues its decades-long tradition of issuing statements of "concern" while doing absolutely nothing to stop the slaughter.

What we are witnessing in Gaza is not collateral damage. It is not war. It is organized, systematic, and relentless extermination. It's called genocide. And the UN—the very body established to prevent such horrors after the Holocaust—watches silently from its glass towers in New York, hosting emergency meetings that end with handshakes and more funerals.

This is not the first time Gaza has burned. However, the international response has never been more spineless and shamefully indifferent. While Israeli missiles erase entire neighborhoods, the Security Council squabbles over semantics. Resolutions are blocked, vetoed, or diluted into meaningless rhetoric. Knowing full well that their non-binding pleas for peace carry the weight of feathers in a storm, the General Assembly issues them. In the meantime, UNRWA, the United Nations' own relief organization in Gaza, is bombed, starved of funds, and politically stifled—punished not for failing, but for attempting to assist. The UN-emblazoned schools and shelters have been transformed into graveyards. Where is the indignation? Where is the accountability?

Let’s be clear: the United Nations is not neutral. It is complicit. Its refusal to act is not due to lack of capacity, but lack of courage. The real decisions are made behind closed doors by a handful of permanent Security Council members, many of whom are deeply invested in protecting Israel’s impunity. The American veto is now a death sentence. Each time it shields Israeli aggression, another hundred bodies are buried under rubble.

This grotesque paralysis isn't just a betrayal of Palestinians—it is a mockery of every ideal the UN was built upon. If the killing of journalists, doctors, children, and aid workers in broad daylight isn’t enough to trigger international intervention, what is? Are we waiting for mass graves? Or will that too be "contested" and "under investigation" for years?

To the UN's defenders who claim diplomacy takes time: how long does justice need when bombs fall in seconds? How many ceasefires must be broken before we admit they were never designed to hold? How many more reports must document crimes against humanity before action is taken? The evidence is not lacking—only the will to use it.

The UN must be held to account. Not by polite letters, but by mass global pressure. Its credibility is in ruins, and its silence is no longer passive—it is deadly. If it cannot protect the most vulnerable among us, then it is not a peacekeeping body. It is a bureaucratic grave digger.

History will not forget the faces of the children pulled from the debris. And it will not forgive those who watched in silence. The ashes of Gaza will one day settle, but the stain on the United Nations may never wash away.

There is no need for a weaker resolution for humanity. It requires a moral revolution. Until then, every moment of UN inaction is a green light for more death.