UN calls Gaza destruction by Israel ‘tragedy of colossal proportions’

The main UN agency in Palestine says a “tragedy of colossal proportions” is unfolding in the besieged Gaza Strip, where people are “denied aid, killed and bombed out of their homes” by the Israeli regime.

The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, gave an assessment of the dire situation in Gaza which has been under constant Israeli bombardment for a month. 

UN Secretary General António Guterres recently also said that Gaza is “becoming a graveyard for children."

UNRWA earlier said that Israeli airstrikes on the besieged Gaza Strip had killed a Palestinian child every 10 minutes on average since the beginning of the war on October 7.

“On average, a child is killed and 2 are injured every 10 minutes during the war,” the UN agency said on Monday. “Protecting civilians in times of conflict is not an aspiration or an ideal; it is an obligation and a commitment to our shared humanity. ”

The United Nations says no life-saving fuel has been allowed into Gaza since October 7, risking the lives of 2.3 million Palestinians as essential services close.

Palestinian Ministry of Health reports and international organizations say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.

‘Enough is enough’: UN says 88 staff killed in Gaza, highest ever in single conflict

The leaders of 18 United Nations agencies and non-profit organizations (NGO) calls for an “immediate ceasefire” in the Gaza Strip.

Israel has pressed ahead with its deadly war on Gaza for over a month now. The total death toll from the Israeli war since October 7th has topped 10,300.

Over 6,500 of the victims are children and women as the regime keeps raining down bombs on residential buildings.

In the latest of such air strikes, dozens have been killed in Deir al-Balah. Eleven members of a family were also killed in the southern city of Khan Yunis.

Medical facilities are not safe from the regime’s onslaught as well.  Israeli airstrikes on Gaza have repeatedly targeted hospitals, residential buildings, mosques, and churches. Under the Geneva Convention, attacks on hospitals are strictly prohibited.

Despite international condemnation, Israeli warplanes have targeted Gaza’s largest medical facility, al-Shifa Hospital, which hosted hundreds of injured people and hundreds of other displaced Palestinians.

UNRWA chief condemns Israel over ‘collective punishment’ of entire Gaza population

Philippe Lazzarini, who leads main UN agency in Palestine, says lives of millions depend on ceasefire.

Despite a massive Israeli military buildup around the Gaza borders and sporadic infiltration on the outskirts of the besieged Strip, Palestinian Resistance continues to repel Israeli attacks.

To justify its military failure, the Israeli army continues to pound civilian homes throughout the Gaza Strip with new massacres reported everywhere in the besieged enclave.

US complicit in Israeli genocide of Gaza people

Meanwhile, Gaza residents say the United States, as a government and a country, is considered complicit in this fighting. The residents reacted on Tuesday to US reports of a possible plan to transfer precision bombs to Israel, with one man saying that the "US is fighting on behalf of Israel."

"Where is the US conscience? Where are the educated and wise people?" said 50-year-old Eyad Al-Jabour, who is a resident of Khan Younis city, while standing near the rubbles of a destructed neighborhood hit by Israeli airstrikes.

Gaza Health Ministry says Israel ‘waging war on hospitals’ as calls grow for end to war crimes

The Health Ministry in Gaza says Israel is ‘waging a war’ on hospitals and ambulances in the besieged enclave.

"They are annihilating people who own nothing, defenseless people who have no weapons, no resistance, no flights, or battleships. I am 50 years old, and I have never heard strikes like these. The strike is destroying 10 homes at the same time, 10 homes, and places that contain women and children in Gaza Strip. This is a genocide," Al-Jabour said. 

Liberation of Palestine begins with closure of US military bases in West Asia

The struggle to liberate Palestine from more than 75 years of illegal Israeli occupation starts with the closure of US military bases and the expulsion of US troops from the West Asia region

Meanwhile, Israel’s hardline right-wing minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said the the regime is arming itself as many apply to carry personal weapons. 

Ben-Gvir’s comments come as the US, the regime's main backer, has expressed fears that a request for 24,000 assault rifles could fuel more settler violence.

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