ALBAWABA- The Gaza Health Ministry has reported that 82 Palestinians were killed and 247 others wounded in the past 24 hours as a result of ongoing Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip.
This comes amid what Palestinian officials describe as a continued campaign of "genocide" by Israeli forces.
Since Israel resumed its large-scale assault on March 18, the ministry states that the death toll has reached 7,200, with at least 25,615 others injured.
The overall toll since the start of the war on October 7, 2023, has now climbed to 57,800 Palestinians killed and 137,656 injured, according to official Gaza health data.
A separate count by the health ministry highlights that 782 people have died and 5,179 have been wounded while awaiting humanitarian aid since May 27. In just the past day, nine Palestinians were killed and 78 injured under such conditions.
In a particularly grim development, the Gaza Government Media Office accused Israel of carrying out a "brutal massacre" at a makeshift medical point, where 15 people, including 10 children and 3 women, were killed. The office condemned the strike as yet another atrocity in a war that has now stretched over 21 months.
Yesterday alone, the total number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces stood at 105, with 530 wounded in what has become one of the deadliest phases of the conflict.
Meanwhile, international criticism of Israel’s actions has been met with U.S. political backlash. The United States imposed sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, after she released a report describing the situation in Gaza as an "economy of genocide."
The U.S. had previously sanctioned International Criminal Court (ICC) officials, including Prosecutor Karim Khan, following the ICC’s decision to seek arrest warrants against the Israeli Prime Minister and Defense Minister for alleged war crimes.
In response to the U.S. sanctions, Albanese told MEE Live, “Looks like I’ve hit a nerve,” adding, “They’re hitting me from all over with whatever means they have, instead of doing what I'm asking: for states and companies to comply with international law.”
Human rights advocates and international legal experts have raised alarm over what they describe as the U.S. systematic targeting of those attempting to uphold international law, underscoring growing global concern over impunity in the conflict.
