25,105 Palestinians have been killed and 62,681 have been injured in Israeli strikes since October 7, with civilians accounting for most deaths.
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Sunday denounced Israel for the “heartbreaking” deaths of Palestinian civilians in Gaza and called it unacceptable to resist statehood for the Palestinian people.
“Israel’s military operations have spread mass destruction and killed civilians on a scale unprecedented during my time as secretary-general,” Guterres said at the opening of a summit of the G77+China in the Ugandan capital Kampala.
“This is heartbreaking and utterly unacceptable. The Middle East is a tinderbox, we must do all we can to prevent conflict from igniting across the region.”
The toll of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza since October 7 has passed 25,000, health officials in the enclave said on Sunday, amid heavy Israeli strikes and street battles raging across the Hamas-run Strip.
Israeli forces and Hamas fighters clashed in several locations, from Jabalia in the north to Khan Younis farther south.
Gaza’s health ministry said 178 Palestinians were killed in the past 24 hours, one of the deadliest days so far of the war.
