Esther Salifu
The Ambassador of the Embassy of the State of Palestine, Abdullah M. Abu Shawesh said Gaza has become a wasteland of rubble and human remains, with people barely holding on to life amid deprivation and disease.
Shawesh stated this in a statement where he gave some of the statistical figures of the war in Gaza which he described as 398 days of nonstop bleeding at the hands of the USA-Israeli different slaughtering machines.
According to the Ambassador, the Palestinian were left behind in the 2030 agenda for sustainable development.
The statement reads: “43,391 Palestinians were martyred and 102,337 were injured in Gaza, with the vast majority being children and women. In the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, 777 Palestinians were martyred during the last 13 months.
“11,923 students were killed and 19,199 injured in the past 13 months. Additionally, 341 school and university buildings were targeted in military attacks, with 77 of them completely destroyed.
“Israel dropped 85 thousand tons of bombs on Gaza, exceeding those dropped in World War II, including internationally banned white phosphorus bombs.
“In just one year, the U.S. has spent at least $22.76 billion on military aid to Israel and related U.S. operations in the region.
“Citing the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs “An estimated 90 percent of Gaza’s population … have been displaced and are living in temporary shelters, without cash to purchase basic necessities like food, clean water, and medicine. 96 percent of Gaza’s population faces acute levels of food insecurity, with 2.15 million people in crisis levels of hunger or worse. The amount of water available in Gaza is reduced by 94% to 4.74 liters a day per person – just under a third of the recommended minimum in emergencies and less than a single toilet flush. As of May {2024}, only 4 of Gaza’s 36 hospitals had not been damaged, destroyed, or raided. More than 880 healthcare workers have been killed.
“15 UN agencies leaders in a joint statement, urged Israel “to cease its assault on Gaza and on the humanitarians trying to help” . . . “Dozens of schools serving as shelters have been bombed or forcibly evacuated. Tents sheltering displaced families have been shelled, and people have been burned alive.” . . . “The entire Palestinian population in North Gaza is at imminent risk of dying from disease, famine and violence”
“At least 197 UNRWA employees have been killed in Gaza. Nearly 190 UNRWA premises have been damaged or destroyed. UNRWA-run schools have been demolished; at least 520 displaced people have been killed while sheltered inside UNRWA schools and other structures.”
“Gaza has become a wasteland of rubble and human remains, with people barely holding on to life amid deprivation and disease, while battling with the deep, inherited trauma of the Nakba survivors. Communal bonds have been broken, the social fabric shredded, and reserves of resilience depleted,”. Since 7 October 2023, at least 150,000 Palestinians have been killed, injured, maimed or are missing – most of them women and children. Entire families have been exterminated, generations erased, and babies left limbless before they could crawl.”
“With no justification other than to kill the remaining residents and force any survivors to flee, Israeli forces used multiple missiles to bomb the residential blocks, destroying them while hundreds of civilians were inside.”
The international community failed to live up to the noble promise of “NEVER AGAIN.”
