The Israeli media outlets reported on Wednesday that an Israeli soldier from Battalion 82 of the 7th Armored Brigade was killed and another was wounded as a result of an explosive device detonation and the collapse of a building yesterday in the southern Gaza Strip.
This report affirms that the Palestinian resistance is still heroically confronting the Zionist aggression on Gaza and inflicting losses upon the enemy troops as much as possible.
However, the Zionist genocidal war on the Strip continues amid the looming failure of the Qatari mediation and Netanyahu’s tendency to announce the expansion of the offensive in the Strip.
At least 82 Palestinians were killed and 262 others were injured in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours as a result of the ongoing Israeli genocide in the region, according to medical sources.
They confirmed that the Palestinian death toll from the Israeli onslaught since October 2023 has risen to 53,655 martyrs, with an additional 121,950 people sustaining injuries. The majority of the victims are women and children.
According to the same sources, the death toll since Israel’s resumption of the genocide on March 18 after a two-month truce has also climbed to 3,509, in addition to 9,909 others injured.
Emergency services are still unable to reach many casualties and dead bodies trapped under the rubble or scattered on roads across the war-torn enclave, as Israeli occupation forces continue to target ambulance and civil defense crews, according to the health authorities.
UN condemns mass starvation of children amid ongoing aid blockade in Gaza
The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child strongly condemned Israel’s ongoing obstruction of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Committee expressed grave concern over reports indicating that more than 14,000 babies could die within hours if life-saving supplies are not allowed into the besieged Strip.
The Committee urged the international community to exert immediate pressure on the Israeli occupation authorities to ensure the sustained and unimpeded delivery of essential food and medical aid.
Citing data from UNICEF and the World Health Organization, the Committee stated that more than 11 weeks of blocked humanitarian access have exacerbated the food security crisis in Gaza. Over 50 children have already died from starvation, with many more at imminent risk. The Committee warned that if the blockade persists, additional child deaths are inevitable, and up to 71,000 children under the age of five could suffer from acute malnutrition within the next year.
It added that the right to food is a fundamental human right, intrinsically linked to the right to life, and is therefore non-derogable under international law.
The Committee also condemned the ongoing Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip, adding that the attacks are killing and maiming women and children, including the killing of at least 116 children last week, even before accounting for casualties from today’s airstrikes.
The Committee stated that there is no justification for actions that blatantly violate international humanitarian law, as well as international human rights law, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
The Committee reiterated the importance of the advisory opinion issued by the International Court of Justice on July 19th last year, along with its orders issued on January 26th and May 24th of the previous year, in the case of South Africa against ‘Israel’, regarding the application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip.
Source: Al-Manar English Website
