The ongoing Israeli war on Gaza since October 2023 has so far resulted in 40,005 documented Palestinian fatalities, with over 92,401 others injured, according to the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip.  Most of the victims are women and children.

As the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli occupation forces in Gaza passes the dark milestone of 40,000, UN rights chief Volker Türk called today for an end to the killing “once and for all” and the release of all prisoners.” “This unimaginable situation is overwhelmingly due to recurring failures by the Israeli Defense Forces to comply with the rules of war,” the High Commissioner for Human Rights said in a statement.

“On average, about 130 people have been killed every day in Gaza over the past 10 months,” Türk continued, citing estimates based on data from the enclave’s health authorities. He described the “scale of the Israeli military’s destruction of homes, hospitals, schools and places of worship [as] deeply shocking.”

As British Foreign Minister David Lammy visits Israel, Israeli peace activists tie themselves to the entrance of the UK consulate in Jerusalem calling to end the war in Gaza and arms sales to Israel, August 16, 2024 (Photo: Free Jerusalem)

Today morning, Aug 16, six Palestinian civilians were killed and several others injured this evening in an Israeli airstrike targeting a residential apartment in the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported that its emergency crews retrieved the bodies of the six individuals killed and several others injured from the scene. 

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