The main UN agency in Palestine says a “tragedy of colossal proportions” is unfolding in the besieged Gaza Strip, where people are “denied aid, killed 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 killed a Palestinian child every 10 minutes on average since the beginning of the war on October 7.
“On average, a child is killed 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 killed and wounded are women and children.