Gaza’s Health Ministry said Thursday that Israeli attacks over the previous 24-hour period killed 17 Palestinians and injured 77, as health officials are warning that children are starving under the US-backed Israeli blockade.
The Health Ministry said the body of one Palestinian killed in previous Israeli strikes was also recovered from the rubble. Its numbers account for dead and wounded Palestinians brought to hospitals and morgues.
“There are still a number of victims under the rubble and on the streets, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them,” the ministry wrote on Telegram.
The Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that at least three people, including one child, were killed by Israeli drone attacks on Gaza City. A young girl was also killed by Israeli attacks on Jabalia, northern Gaza.
WAFA also reported that Palestinians were killed by Israeli attacks in the southern city of Rafah and in Deir el-Balah, which is located in central Gaza.
The latest violence in Gaza comes after 60 days of Israel blocking humanitarian aid and all other goods from entering the Strip. Michael Ryan, deputy director of the World Health Organization, called what Israel is doing an “abomination.”
“We are breaking the bodies and minds of the children of Gaza. We are starving the children of Gaza. We are complicit,” Ryan told reporters in Geneva.
The Palestinian relief agency, UNRWA, said it had nearly 3,000 trucks with humanitarian aid ready to enter Gaza. “One million children depend on aid, and without it, their lives are in danger. The crossings must reopen, and the siege must be lifted,” UNRWA said.
Dr Munir al-Bursh, director of Gaza’s Health Ministry, said Thursday that 92 percent of children and breastfeeding mothers in Gaza suffer from severe malnutrition and called for the UN to declare a famine.
“We call on the United Nations to issue an official declaration of famine in Gaza, given that field indicators and medical and humanitarian data confirm that international conditions for this have been met,” al-Bursh said.
The Health Ministry also said on Thursday that since Israel resumed its genocidal war on March 18, which it did with full US support, it has recorded the deaths of 2,326 Palestinians and 6,050 injuries.
Since October 7, 2023, the ministry’s death toll has reached 52,418, and the number of wounded has climbed to 118,091, figures that don’t account for thousands missing and presumed dead under the rubble or indirect deaths caused by the Israeli siege.
How's this different than the Holocaust?
It’s immeasurably worse because it’s being live streamed and openly supported by governments and legacy media. And—most importantly—our governments are signatories to the Geneva Convention that were created after last century’s most notable genocide. Illegal and immoral at every level. As someone commented, human right have a skin colour; the darker your skin the fewer rights you are entitled to have.
Not entirely. Slavs don’t matter either. The “sympathy” is bullshit propaganda geared toward manufacturing consent of fighting to the last Ukrainian. Now the “sympathy” is being used as a cover for losing the battle and trying to refocus toward China.
It’s all about pawns in the US global empire game. Everyone is a Palestinian or Ukrainian, depending on the plot. Israelis are expendable too, when you add in the Hannibal Directive and abandoned hostages (which is merely an extension of the Hannibal Directive). Not to mention the questionable circumstances of ignoring intelligence before Oct 7th.
Antisemitism “sympathy” is but another path to manufacture consent for war and slaughter.
Money and power is all that matters.
It is very different. Holicaust was perpetrated by a twisted regime that exterminated all they dermed inferior. it was done while world war was raging .
Today, this genocide is commited in the full view of very comfortable mankind going about its business as if nothing is haplening. It is done with the military help, diplimatic cover and moral support by the world’s presumably most advanced democracies.
Today world is paralized by cowardice, as the Western empire bbrandishes its power to intimidate the world into inaction.
Any starvation will be squarely on Trump's shoulders. That should be headlines everywhere. Shame that asshole into doing SOMETHING.
Hamas "did" October 7 and Israel responded with an October 7,000,000.
Israel allowed Hamas to do Oct 7th.
Similar to US allowed Saudi backed thugs to do nine eleven…!
Good ole "Bander Bush!!!! Does he still haunt Maine in his compound there???
Israel is the largest & most viscous criminal origination the since NAZIS
He does not care. He will blame someone else telling his adorable base that he wanted to help them all along but someone stopped him. He already did so half way on Airforce One, saying that he wants to help the starving Gaza people. So for MAGA he is a saint again- forget it – how about the next pope plus emperor?
He already did so half way on Airforce One, saying that he wants to help the starving Gaza people
Yes, but now people know he said it and they also know when he said it and they know he STILL hasn't done anything. Even the most delusional amongst his supporters won't be able to ignore what will happen if SOMETHING isn't done in the very near future.
You sure about that? Some are such ingrained cult members that they will stick with him even when he hands out the cool-aid.
Maybe it's wishful thinking on my part.
He will blame China. Democrats will blame Russia.
Don’t you known it’s antisemitic to show any form of Palestinian suffering? After all, Israel’s lionized President declared publicly that there are no innocents in Gaza. Because he’s Israeli we must take his word at face value. Israeli officials never lie. They never bomb hospitals or schools or aid workers or ambulances or starve people.
War Crimes?!?!…..!
Zionist occupiers are downwind from Gaza; They breath vaporized Palestinian DNA all day every day. Karma also bites with bomb dust pollution.
It should be obvious by now that both in Israel, America, and much of Europe, Zionism is a sick puppy cult that needs to be eradicated.
Poor baby.
A special place in hell is reserved for monsters that deny food and water to human beings that are left to starve with nobody to stand up for them.
I am disguisted with human race. Animals show more compassion and care for old, weak and young.
World is full of cowards.
Reading these numbers everyday gets depressing and exhaustive. If these numbers of people died at the same time in any other place on the globe it would be on a 24 hour news loop reel.