Death toll passes 32,000 as Israel’s unabated hostilities in Gaza continue

Health Ministry in the besieged Gaza Strip says no fewer than 32,070 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on the enclave since last October, when the war started.

A ministry statement also confirmed that 74,298 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been wounded in the bloodshed that has continued unabated for the past 168 days.

It stressed that the Israeli army committed nine “massacres” across the Gaza Strip, killing 82 people and injuring 110 others in the past 24 hours.

“Many people are still trapped under rubble and on the roads and rescuers are unable to reach them,” the statement added.

Israel has launched violent attacks on the Gaza Strip since a cross-border attack by Hamas, which Tel Aviv says killed nearly 1,200 people.

According to the United Nations, rampaging attacks on Gaza have pushed 85% of the territory’s population into internal displacement amid acute shortages of food, clean water, and medicine, while 60% of the enclave’s infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed.

To curb the onslaught, the South African government recently dragged Israel to the International Court of Justice, accusing it of committing genocide.

In an interim ruling in January, the UN court in the Hague ordered Tel Aviv to prevent genocidal acts and take measures to ensure humanitarian assistance is provided to civilians in Gaza.

Despite the ruling, hostilities have persisted unrelentingly, and relief deliveries remain far too few to solve the humanitarian crisis.