The main UN agency in Palestine says a “tragedy of colossal proportions” unfolding due to Israel’s relentless bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip, where people are “denied aid, killed and bombed out of their homes.”
The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, gave an assessment of the dire situation which has been under constant Israeli bombardment for a month.
For 1 month, people across📍#GazaStrip have been denied aid, killed & bombed out of their homes.
Daily struggles to find bread & water. Blackouts cut people off from loved ones & the rest of the world.
This is forced displacement & humanitarian tragedy of colossal proportions. pic.twitter.com/J12Z4w0hqw
— UNRWA (@UNRWA) November 7, 2023
UN Secretary General António Guterres recently also said that Gaza is “becoming a graveyard for children.”
UNRWA earlier said that Israeli airstrikes on the besieged Gaza Strip had killed a Palestinian child every 10 minutes on average since the beginning of the war on October 7.
“On average, a child is killed and 2 are injured every 10 minutes during the war,” the UN agency said on Monday. “Protecting civilians in times of conflict is not an aspiration or an ideal; it is an obligation and a commitment to our shared humanity. ”
The United Nations says no life-saving fuel has been allowed into Gaza since October 7, risking the lives of 2.3 million Palestinians as essential services close.
Palestinian Ministry of Health reports and international organizations say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.
Israel has pressed ahead with its deadly war on Gaza for over a month now. The total death toll from the Israeli war since October 7th has topped 10,300.
Over 6,500 of the victims are children and women as the regime keeps raining down bombs on residential buildings.
In the latest of such air strikes, dozens have been killed in Deir al-Balah. Eleven members of a family were also killed in the southern city of Khan Yunis.
Medical facilities are not safe from the regime’s onslaught as well. Israeli airstrikes on Gaza have repeatedly targeted hospitals, residential buildings, mosques, and churches. Under the Geneva Convention, attacks on hospitals are strictly prohibited.
Despite international condemnation, Israeli warplanes have targeted Gaza’s largest medical facility, al-Shifa Hospital, which hosted hundreds of injured people and hundreds of other displaced Palestinians.
Despite a massive Israeli military buildup around the Gaza borders and sporadic infiltration on the outskirts of the besieged Strip, Palestinian Resistance continues to repel Israeli attacks.
To justify its military failure, the Israeli army continues to pound civilian homes throughout the Gaza Strip with new massacres reported everywhere in the besieged enclave.
US complicit in Israeli genocide of Gaza people
Meanwhile, Gaza residents say the United States, as a government and a country, is considered complicit in this fighting. The residents reacted on Tuesday to US reports of a possible plan to transfer precision bombs to Israel, with one man saying that the “US is fighting on behalf of Israel.”
“Where is the US conscience? Where are the educated and wise people?” said 50-year-old Eyad Al-Jabour, who is a resident of Khan Younis city, while standing near the rubbles of a destructed neighborhood hit by Israeli airstrikes.
“They are annihilating people who own nothing, defenseless people who have no weapons, no resistance, no flights, or battleships. I am 50 years old, and I have never heard strikes like these. The strike is destroying 10 homes at the same time, 10 homes, and places that contain women and children in Gaza Strip. This is a genocide,” Al-Jabour said.
Meanwhile, Israel’s hardline right-wing minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said the the regime is arming itself as many apply to carry personal weapons.
Ben-Gvir’s comments come as the US, the regime’s main backer, has expressed fears that a request for 24,000 assault rifles could fuel more settler violence.
