The violence from the air spreads throughout Palestine. While the Israeli Army continues its aggressive offensive against the Gaza Stripwhich kills hundreds of people in hours, in West Bank suffer drone attacks, raising the number of fatalities to over one hundred in the last three weeks. The numbers in the enclave barely serve to express the heartbreak of an entire town without a safe place in its own land. Almost 6,000 people, some 5,924 in particular, have been killed by Israeli bombings in 19 days. The vast majority are civilians, among whom there are 2,450 children.
Israel has also escalated its diplomatic offensive against the United Nations, after the Secretary General, Antonio Guterreswill remember the “56 years of suffocating occupation that the Palestinian people have suffered.” The Israeli ambassador to the UN, Gilad Serdanhas said that They will deny visas to officials of the international organization and has demanded the resignation of Guterres. “We have already refused a visa to Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Martin Griffiths; the time has come to teach them a lesson”Serdan told Army Radio.
On the ground, the different United Nations agencies work day and night to save Palestinian lives. The UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) warned on Wednesday night that it will be forced to cease operations in the Gaza Strip due to the lack of fuel. After a meeting with his Turkish counterpart, the Qatari Foreign Minister, the emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al Thanihas denounced that, although the number of children murdered in Gaza is already higher than the number of children murdered in Ukraine, “we have not seen a similar reaction” and has accused the international community of “acting as if the lives of Palestinian children they will not count, as if they had no face or name”.
“Complete collapse”
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For its part, the enclave’s Ministry of Health has had to give very bad news. “We declare the complete collapse of the hospital health system in the Gaza Strip,” they stated in a statement. Currently there are 7,000 sick and injured Palestinians in hospitals that are at risk of death. Although hospitals are open, they cannot provide any health services because its capabilities and resources have been exhausted. For now, they only serve as a refuge for displaced people throughout the territory. Some 600,000 Palestinians They have sought protection in different UNRWA centers.
In the occupied West Bank, Israeli attacks take them back to the times of the Second Intifada. In the Jenin refugee camp, they have already suffered second drone strike in one week, a type of aggression that had not been experienced for almost 20 years. The impact killed three Palestinians at the time. Overnight, seven Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank and 58 Palestinians have been arrested in a single day. At least 103 people have died from violence by Israeli soldiers and radical settlers since the attack began on October 7.