The brutality and inhumanity of Israel’s assault on Gaza is no surprise. It’s just what was promised.
After all, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant had said on October 09, “We are fighting human animals”, and announcing that food, water, fuel, medicines, everything, would not be permitted into Gaza.
Since then, defying condemnations and pleas from international organizations and rights groups, Israel has continued an indiscriminate campaign that has sown terror among the people in Gaza, killed entire multi-generation families, and destroyed huge swaths of urban and rural lands.
“What we are witnessing in Gaza right now is the mass killing of children in slow motion”, says Alexandra Saieh, head of humanitarian policy and advocacy at Save the Children International.
The mass murder is not stopping anytime soon.
In the latest update provided by Gaza's Ministry of Health on Thursday, the death toll of Palestinians now number 30,035.
The actual number killed is likely to be far higher as the count does not include those who did not reach hospitals, among them thousands of people still lost under the rubble of buildings hit by Israeli air strikes.
More than 70,000 injured people have been registered by Gaza's MoH, which are the only official source for casualties. Their data is cited by UN agencies and other international institutions.
Also, six children have died from dehydration and malnutrition at hospitals in northern Gaza, the Health Ministry in the besieged Palestinian territory have said, as the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the besieged enclave worsens. Seven others remained in critical condition.
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