The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza announced on Thursday, December 7, 2023, that Israeli bombing in the Gaza Strip had killed 17,177 people, 70% of women and children under the age of 18, in two months of war.
The balance sheet also reports more than 42,000 injured. Palestinians who died, mostly killed in air strikes, are more than 70% of children (more than 7000 killed) and women (more than 5000).
The ministry said that 350 people had been killed in the past 24 hours, while Israeli military operations launched in the north of Gaza are now extending to the whole of the small overcrowded territory.
UN shock statements
In this context, the United Nations continue to alert public opinion to the fate of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip for lack of being able to act.
The UN secretary general, Antonio Guterres has mounted several times to the niche, attracting the wrath of the Israeli government. At the start of the conflict, he said he was “deeply worried about the clear violations of international humanitarian law that we see in Gaza. Let’s be clear: no party to an armed conflict is above international humanitarian law ”.
Later, he described the Gaza Strip as “a cemetery for children”. At the time of the Truce, Antonio Guterres said before the UN Security Council that the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip lived “a monumental humanitarian disaster, under the eyes of the world. We must not look away. ”
For its part, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, said on Wednesday December 6 that the Palestinians in Gaza live in “the most total horror, which is only angry”.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) was also heard by the voice of its spokesperson, James Elder. Friday, December 2, after the end of the Truce, he denounced “those who decided that the killing of children could resume”. “Accepting the sacrifice of the children of Gaza is humanity that abandons”. “The inaction is, in essence, a green light given to the killing of children,” he also said.
