Read the world events and find that beyond the pandemic crisis afflicting humanity in recent days, the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians has begun to position itself, after new waves of intense attacks by missile launches, bombardment from ships, use of fighter planes and helicopters, which represents an unprecedented escalation of this historic conflict.

Although we have lived exceptional times since the arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic, due to the more than 162 million infections and nearly 3.4 million deaths caused by the new coronavirus, this recent war scenario warns of a shock of conscience and threat to humanity.

When I mention that this new escalation of conflict between Israelis and Palestinians warns of a shock of conscience and a threat to humanity, I express it from a deeply critical and at the same time reflective position, since I consider that in the current pandemic scenario we are too far from overcoming the Covid-19 crisis but at the same time we are at the door of a full-scale war.

The main challenge for humanity is to critically recognize all those actions that have led us to the situation we now live in, which goes beyond global confinement, as we have yet to address the climate crisis, and ironically the warlike violence that has been characterized by claiming more innocent lives than the virus itself and the unfortunate tragedies of climate order.

For decades, the scientific community, environmental groups, health institutions and civil organizations have been warning about the evident general crisis we are experiencing as humanity, because we are facing an existential rupture, loss of reason and common sense, or what the American philosopher Noam Chomsky described as a moral crisis.

The irresponsible actions of the Israeli and Palestinian states are an example of the fact that the states do not care about the pandemic and climate crisis, on the contrary, they join efforts to intensify their petty intentions to unleash a full-scale war to establish a correlation of military and economic forces of world order.

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