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, massacred 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 martyred a Palestinian child every 10 minutes on average since the beginning of the war on October 7.

“On average, a child is martyred 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 massacred and wounded are women and children.

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 the Occupied Palestine, 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.

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