Mera Aladam
Israel killed more than 70
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday in a wave of intense bombardments.
The Israeli military targeted
residential areas and shelters housing displaced Palestinians, with many
children reportedly among the dead.
According to statistics from the
UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa), 92 percent of homes in the besieged
enclave have been damaged or destroyed during Israel's war on Gaza.
“Families in Gaza face
unimaginable devastation,” the agency said in a post on X.
Several massacres have been
reported across the Gaza Strip, with the Gaza government media office
indicating earlier that over 50 people had been killed, including children, in
just the first five hours since dawn on Tuesday.
In a statement on Telegram, the
media office condemned the latest wave of attacks, which have directly targeted
homes, shelters, hospitals and food distribution points, describing them as
"a criminal act that amounts to a full-fledged crime of genocide".
The media office referenced
comments made by former Israeli military officer Yair Golan, now a politician
and leader of the centre-left Democrats party, who said on Tuesday that Israel
is "on the way to becoming a pariah state, like South Africa was, if we
don’t return to acting like a sane country.
“A sane country does not fight
against civilians, does not kill babies as a hobby, and does not set itself the
goal of expelling populations,” Golan told Israeli public radio.
His comments drew an angry
response from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and centre-left
opposition leader Yair Lapid.
Targeting healthcare
In a statement on Monday, Gaza’s
health ministry highlighted Israel’s targeting of healthcare infrastructure in
the enclave, particularly following the heavy bombardment of the Indonesian
Hospital in northern Gaza that same day.
“A complete power outage has
struck the Indonesian Hospital after the occupation targeted its generators.
Targeting the generators means the hospital will cease operations entirely,”
the ministry said on Telegram.
“Destroying hospital generators
amounts to crippling the backbone of the healthcare system and bringing
hospital operations in the Gaza Strip to a halt.”
Speaking at the opening of the
annual World Health Assembly, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of
the World Health Organisation (WHO), said that escalating hostilities,
expulsion orders, shrinking humanitarian space, and the blockade on aid to Gaza
were “driving an influx of casualties to a health system that is already on its
knees”.
“People are dying from
preventable diseases as medicines wait at the border, while attacks on
hospitals deny people care and deter them from seeking it,” he said.
Meanwhile, Unrwa stated on
Tuesday that Gaza is likely facing its “worst humanitarian crisis since October
2023”. The agency noted that Israeli authorities have “deliberately blocked all
supplies to Gaza”.
“The only thing entering Gaza
right now are bombs. Nowhere is safe... Intensified Israeli bombardments from
air, land, and sea have resulted in hundreds of casualties and mass
displacement,” Unrwa said in a post on social media.
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