For over ten months, the Israeli occupation has waged a comprehensive war of extermination on the Gaza Strip, resulting in tens of thousands of casualties, with the majority being children and women.
The deliberate displacement of nearly two million people every two weeks, coupled with the massive destruction of health and educational infrastructure and the cessation of food, water, medicine, and fuel supplies, has led to a famine that has claimed the lives of dozens of children.
Since the beginning of the Israeli occupation’s genocide against the Gaza Strip in October 2023, the Israeli forces have killed more than 39,677 civilians and injured over 91,645 others, mostly children. The World Health Organization (WHO), has warned that mass displacement in Gaza is severely impacting public health.
Overcrowding, lack of proper shelter, poor water, sanitation, and hygiene conditions are increasing the risk of communicable diseases.
Overcrowding is also heightening the risk of mass casualties in attacks on densely populated areas.
Medical sources in Gaza Strip report daily massacres committed by Israel against Palestinian families, claiming the lives of dozens of civilians, most of whom are children, women, and the elderly.
Thousands of victims remain under rubble and scattered on the streets, as Israeli forces has prevented ambulance and civil defense crews from reaching them.
The humanitarian crisis resulting from the ongoing war on Gaza Strip is worsening, with severe impacts on the health of children and vulnerable populations, particularly the elderly and sick. The occupation forces are depriving people in Gaza Strip of basic hygiene essentials, creating conditions ripe for epidemics.
The destruction caused by the occupation has left Gaza Strip in ruins, with nothing remaining but rubble and the tents of displaced refugees, in what is considered the largest and most brutal genocide in the occupied territories.
The situation continues to deteriorate and could lead to a disaster engulfing the entire Strip if the international community remains unable to stop the war, bring in humanitarian aid, and meet the medical needs of the population.
The insistence of the Israeli occupation army on committing these crimes demonstrates a blatant disregard for all international norms, laws, and resolutions, violating the sovereignty of nations and their national security, and breaching the principles of international law and the UN charter.
The UN Security Council must take responsibility and implement essential measures to pressure Israel, the occupying power, into respecting international law, ceasing its threats and assaults that jeopardize regional and global security, and imposing an immediate cessation of the ongoing aggression on Gaza Strip. It is crucial to protect the entire Middle East from descending into a full-blown regional war.
