The Ministry of Health of Gaza has reported Tuesday that the number of fatalities has exceeded 60,000. This amount includes the death of 18,000 Palestinian children and supposes the death of more than 90 people daily during the 662 days that have elapsed since the beginning of the offensive in October 2023. The counting of the Hamas authorities refers to the number of victims identified and registered after bombing, but the number of people perished due to the set of Israeli actions in Gaza would exceed 100,000 experts in the field.
The tragic update of the number of deaths in the strip arrives at a time when and in which the Government of Benjamín Netanyahu openly recognizes that it does not plan to remove their troops from the place. Some experts point out the risk that Israeli soldiers get into Gaza and perpetuate their crimes about the civilian population in the absence of effective pressure measures of the international community over Israel.
The last count of the Gazatí Health Ministry includes more than 100 new victims in 24 hours. The Israeli army persists in its offensive to improve the flow of aid. This occurs while the deaths of starvation happen daily in the enclave, where medical and humanitarian groups warn that the strip is at the gates of registering large -scale victims due to lack of food.
Despite the urgency, the first days in which Israel has applied measures to soften the blockade have lacked significant results. Less than 100 trucks have accessed the strip every day, far from the 700 required by the UN, and most of them have been looted due to the lack of protection by the Israeli occupant army.
Contrary to what the leaders of Israel claim, who accuse the Gazati authorities of inflating the records of fatalities, several researchers suggest that these counts “underestimate the true magnitude” of the impact of Israeli actions. This is believed by experts cited by Haaretzwhich estimated at 100,000 since 2023. That figure combined the dead identified by the Gazati authorities, which only contemplate the victims caused by the shrapnel, with other deaths caused by the Israeli maneuvers. Thousands of bodies are still trapped under the rubble and there are bodies that have not left any trace after being burned. More than 1,100 people have died shot in food cast zones. And the calculated destruction of living conditions, with the destruction of water and sanitation networks and the blockade of aid, has filled the morgues after boosting hunger and disease.
Immediate measures to save hunger
Precisely, the integrated classification of the phases (CIF, in Spanish), a system on food crisis backed by the UN, denounced on Tuesday in a statement that “generalized starvation, malnutrition and diseases” in the enclave. Although the lack of terrain analysis prevents the CIF declare a famine, the agency said that “immediate measures” must be taken to end hostilities, allow a humanitarian response “without obstacles” and thus be able to “save lives.”
The alert screams of the groups that defend human rights collide for now with international inaction. After the Gazatis authorities have made a name and surname to 60,000 lifeless Gazaties, and in a context in which Israeli and international actors describe the Israeli offensive in the strip as a genocide, the powers of the world continue to avoid taking coercive measures against Israel.
Haizam Amirah Fernández, executive director of the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CEARC), states that “” have not taken “any” measure with the capacity to achieve it. According to the person in charge of this body, the international community is not applying on Israel the measures it would use against any other state that committed “serious crimes against humanity, war crimes” and possibly a genocide. With this, says Amirah Fernández, “Western powers are telling Israel that it is an abnormal state.”
This CEARC member believes it is necessary to impose vetoes and prohibitions on Israel that they make the society of that country understand that the actions of its rulers place them as a Paria state. He puts as an example the expulsion of Eurovision or sports competitions. A dozen countries, including Spain, Ireland, Slovenia and Norway, have recognized the Palestinian State during the current Israeli offensive in Gaza. But Amirah Fernández warns that this does not change anything on the ground. He describes it as “a symbolic measure” and ensures that it is “a farce for the gallery” if it is not accompanied by measures that influence Israel’s actions.
The lack of pressures that encourage a change of course in Israeli authorities facilitates that they are baging on the ground. The Israeli army invaded the strip in October 2023. At present, Israeli troops control more than 80% of that territory and the Israel government has expressed its intention to remain in the enclave indefinitely.
“Often, the occupant forces sink into the territory they occupy,” explains to this newspaper Rob Geist Pinfold, a professor in international security at the King’s College in London and Doctor of War Studies for that same university. Over time, their objectives become diffuse, explains the teacher.
“In addition, from a policy formulation perspective, it is always easier to perpetuate the the status quoalthough it is more bad than good, than to assume a great risk and retire, ”adds Pinfold. With this, the teacher refers to situations that occurred in countries such as Afghanistan or Iraq, in other territories occupied by Israel – as Lebanon or the West Bank – and in Gaza, where, he says,“ the army does not have clear purposes. ”“ The Israeli government has proclaimed that it wants to But nobody knows what that victory does not look or how it is achieved, ”continues the King’s College researcher. That leaves the army commanders in a difficult position, since they pursue” inaccurate “ends and without” clear “means to achieve them.
