Israeli attacks continue in the Gaza Strip despite a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in the besieged Palestinian territory during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Highlights

*The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said the number of people killed in Israel’s onslaught since October 7 has increased to 32,490.

*The regime’s strikes in Gaza have also wounded at least 74,889 people, the ministry added. 

*It said the latest figures include 76 people killed and 102 wounded over the latest 24-hour reporting period.

*The Israeli army said its forces are continuing their siege of al-Shifa Hospital where they have claimed to have killed a number of Hamas fighters. The regime claims Hamas uses the hospital as a command center but it has failed to provide any evidence. 

Israel destroying Gaza

Israel has destroyed Gaza by its relentless attacks since October, the UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory said at the UN Human Rights Council.

“The harrowing number of deaths, the irreparable harm done to those who survive, the systematic destruction of every aspect necessary to sustain life in Gaza – from hospitals to schools, from homes to arable land – and the particular harm to hundreds of thousands of children and to pregnant and young mothers,” Francesca Albanese said.

She said in a report to the council that Israel’s actions can only be interpreted as constituting “prima facie evidence of an intention to systematically destroy the Palestinians as a group”.