232 days of Israeli aggression: 35,903 killed, 80,420 injured in Gaza
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The Israeli aggression on Gaza intensifies despite the ICJ's binding ruling to halt the aggression on Rafah.
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Palestinians stand around a charred fishing boat hit by an Israeli strike on the coast of Rafah in southern Gaza on May 22, 2024. (AFP)
"Israel" has killed 35,903 Palestinians and injured 80,420 others in 232 days of genocide since October 7, according to the daily report by the Health Ministry in Gaza.
As the Israeli occupation continues the onslaught in the Gaza Strip, its forces committed five new massacres against Palestinians in 24 hours only, killing 46 and injuring 130 others.
Furthermore, thousands of individuals remain unaccounted for, feared dead beneath the wreckage of their houses across the Strip.
According to Palestinian and international groups, women and children make up the vast majority of those killed and wounded.
According to medical authorities, an Israeli attack on a house in Beit Hanoun, north of the Gaza Strip, killed ten civilians, including children, and injured others.
Simultaneously, Israeli airplanes bombed al-Nazla School in Gaza City's Safatwi area, killing 10 and injuring 17.
In Rafah, "Israel" killed two Palestinians and injured others on Saturday evening. Eyewitnesses stated that Israeli fighter jets targeted the al-Najma roundabout in the Shaboura refugee camp in Rafah, killing 2 and injuring others.
In the meantime, judges at the United Nation's highest court, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), ordered "Israel" to immediately halt its military assault on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, to no avail.
Kuwait hospital in Rafah pleads for fuel deliveries
The Kuwait Speciality Hospital in Rafah requested gasoline deliveries on Saturday "to ensure its continued operation," noting that it was the only one in Rafah governorate still accepting patients, AFP reported.
On Friday, UN humanitarian head Martin Griffiths stated on X that the situation had reached "a moment of clarity."
“At a time when the people of Gaza are staring down famine … it is more critical than ever to heed the calls made over the last seven months: Release the hostages. Agree a ceasefire. End this nightmare,” Griffiths wrote.
There has been nothing limited about the suffering that Israel's military operation in Rafah has caused.
— Martin Griffiths (@UNReliefChief) May 24, 2024
With today's adoption of Security Council resolution 2730 and the @CIJ_ICJ's order, this is a moment of clarity.
Release the hostages. Agree a ceasefire. End this nightmare. pic.twitter.com/kbwIcrgujs
UNICEF warns of low fuel supplies in Gaza risking lives of newborns
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) pointed to the "very low" fuel supply to Gaza, specifically to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah.
In a post by the UNICEF Palestine account, the organization said that there is "no consistent fuel delivery to" al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital," which will cause oxygen generators to shit down, endangering the lives of more than 20 newborns.
"Gaza needs more fuel NOW & safe corridors for humanitarian workers to operate," the organization urged.
Earlier on Thursday, UNICEF's Executive Director, Catherine Russell, said that the children in Gaza continue to pay a catastrophic price "from blocked aid routes and intensified military operations and fighting Rafah and beyond," adding that this has paralyzed the only remaining pediatric hospital in north Gaza.
Russel stressed that "children who have survived over 7 months" of the war on Gaza "are at ever-growing risk of dying from malnutrition and dehydration."
She pointed to the fact that severe acute malnutrition, as a result of the Israeli-imposed siege on the Gaza Strip, can leave permanent cognitive and physical damage to children.
"No child should die from starvation," she concluded.
