Monitoring Desk: The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) released a report on October 7, 2024, to mark the one-year genocide of Palestinians that started after Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups launched the deadliest attack on Israel resulting unending Israeli attacks on Gaza and West Bank, purging Palestinian nation and committing the genocide of Palestinian Muslims.
According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, more than 41,600 Palestinians have been killed, many of them women and children, and 96,600 injured. Thousands more are missing and believed to be trapped under the rubble.
Nearly the entire population of Gaza has been displaced, many of them multiple times, with no safe place to go.
UN Report says:
Thousands of Palestinians are arbitrarily detained, reportedly subjected to torture and other inhuman treatment and with no information on their whereabouts.
Civilians face extreme deprivation, with limited or no access to health care, food, electricity or humanitarian aid. Children have missed out on an entire year of education. Schools sheltering displaced families have been repeatedly shelled, health-care workers and hospitals have been systematically attacked, and aid convoys have been continually blocked and even shot at. In the West Bank, the use of lethal force by Israeli forces, along with rampant settler violence and house demolitions, have led to a sharp rise in fatalities, widespread destruction and forced displacement.
“No statistics or words can fully convey the extent of the physical, mental and societal devastation that has taken place,” said Joyce Msuya, the Acting Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator. “But we know what must happen: The hostages must be released and treated humanely. Civilians must be protected and their essential needs met. Palestinians arbitrarily detained must be released. Humanitarian workers must be safeguarded and their work facilitated. Perpetrators must be held accountable for any serious violations of international humanitarian law. And the assault on Gaza must stop.”
The past year has seen Israel blocking humanitarian access into and within Gaza, crippling aid operations. As a result, a weakened population is left to battle disease, hunger and death.
More than 300 aid workers, the vast majority from the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), have been killed in Gaza – more than in any other single crisis, making Gaza the most dangerous place for aid workers.
Despite the immense risks – including violence, looting of supplies, and access challenges – humanitarian agencies continue to deliver aid when and where they can. More than 560,000 children were vaccinated against polio during the first phase of an emergency vaccination campaign – an example of what can be achieved when aid workers can reach people in need. But such examples are few.
“It has been 12 months of unrelenting tragedy – this must end,” said Ms. Msuya. “Member States must wield their influence to ensure respect for international humanitarian law and human rights and compliance with the rulings of the International Court of Justice. They must also work to end impunity. An immediate ceasefire and durable peace are long overdue.”
Today is the first anniversary of the Israeli bombing of Gaza which was started after Hamas’s rocket attack on Israel. Right-wing Jamaat-e-Islami offered the government to join the Palestine Solidarity Day and for All Parties Conference on Palestine issue. The invitation was given to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif by Pakistan People’s Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and the Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Hafiz Naeem ur Rehman who visited PM House and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif accepted to host an All Parties Conference to raise a voice against the ongoing oppression of unarmed Palestinians in Gaza and to support the Palestinian brothers and sisters.
