Gaza death toll surpasses Ukraine death toll

Israel’s attacks on Gaza continue after Hamas’s armed wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, launched an attack called the “Aqsa Flood” on the morning of October 7. Civilian casualties in conflicts have surpassed civilian casualties from the Russia-Ukraine war, which began on February 24, 2022 and lasted 620 days.

According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, Israel killed 10,022 Palestinians, including 4,104 children and 2,641 women, in the attacks it has been carrying out for a month, while at least 24,000 people were injured.

In the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, Israeli forces and Jewish settlers killed 155 Palestinians.

Although 620 days have passed since the war that Russia started in Ukraine on February 24, 2022, on the instructions of Russian President Vladimir Putin, 9,806 civilians were killed from the start of the war until October 8, 2023.

Consequently, the number of civilians killed in Gaza in 31 days exceeded the number of civilians killed in Ukraine. The fact that there were more civilian casualties in Gaza in a short period of one month than during the war between Russia and Ukraine revealed the seriousness of Israel’s attacks.

Israel is committing a war crime under the standards of international law with its military attacks and isolation practices that directly target civilians and civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip.

5 CHILDREN DIE PER HOUR

In Gaza, where half of the population of 2.3 million are children, according to data from the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 40 percent (3,760) of the 7,028 Palestinians died in the conflicts. which have continued since October. 7 were registered as children. In this context, 5 children are murdered every hour in Gaza.

The UK-based non-governmental organization Save The Children announced that the number of children killed in Palestine in the last 3 weeks is greater than the number of children killed in one year in conflicts around the world in 2020, 2021 and 2022.

HOSPITALS WERE BOMBED

While the Israeli army attacked the Al-Ahli Baptist and Turkish-Palestinian Friendship hospitals in Gaza, causing the death of thousands of civilians; It also bombed the area around Jerusalem and Indonesian hospitals affiliated with the Palestinian Red Crescent.

The Şifa hospital, the largest health center with thousands of wounded and civilians, was also attacked by the Israeli army.

In clashes between the Israeli army and Hezbollah since October 8, 61 Hezbollah members and 4 Israeli soldiers were killed.

Israel announced that more than 1,400 Israelis, including 315 soldiers, were killed and 5,132 people were injured in attacks and clashes carried out from Gaza.

According to Israel, while the number of soldiers killed in clashes in the Gaza Strip since October 31 has risen to 30, there are 242 Israeli prisoners held by the Qassam Brigades.

CIVILIAN LOSSES IN THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR

It has been 620 days since Russia started war in Ukraine on February 24, 2022, following instructions from Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Putin announced on television in the early hours of February 24, 2022 that they had launched a “special military operation in Ukraine.”

According to data published by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on October 9, 9,806 civilians were killed and 17,962 civilians were injured from the start of the war until October 8, 2023.

TRANQUILITY FOR WESTERN GAZA

Western leaders have repeatedly condemned and imposed sanctions on Russia for indiscriminately killing civilians in Ukraine. However, Western countries, especially the United States, ignored Israel’s massacre of civilians by dropping bombs on the Gaza Strip since October 7.

The leaders of Western countries, especially the United States, openly supported Israel. US President Joe Biden said in his October 10 statement: “The United States stands with Israel. “We will ensure that the Jewish, democratic state of Israel can defend itself today and tomorrow, as it did in the past.” He used the expression.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, in his speech at the Great Palestinian Demonstration held in Istanbul on October 28, said: “Those who shed crocodile tears for the civilians killed yesterday in the war between Ukraine and Russia are silently observing the death today. of thousands of innocent children. he made the assessment of it.

President Erdoğan said: “You shed tears for those who died in Ukraine, but who are these babies who died in Gaza? Why don’t you speak? …” he stated.

ATTACK ON CIVILIANS VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW

Military attacks and isolation practices directly targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip constitute war crimes under the standards of international law.

In the 1949 Geneva Convention, “civilian hospitals established for the treatment of the wounded, sick, disabled and postpartum women may not be attacked under any circumstances. “The parties to the conflict will always respect and protect these hospitals.” There is an article.

Israel, which bombed hospitals where civilians sought refuge for treatment in Gaza, is committing a war crime by violating international law today, as it did in the past.

Although the hospital in question is believed to have been used by Hamas in the attack carried out by Israel against the al-Ahli Baptist hospital in Gaza, which caused the death of hundreds of people; It is not enough that the attack provides a military benefit to Israel, and since the building is a hospital, there are wounded and receiving treatment there, and almost all of them are civilians, the attack in question amounts to a “violation of humanitarian law.” . (AA)