The United Nations has confirmed that the number of civilian casualties due to global conflicts increased by 72% in 2023, according to a breaking news report from Cairo News Channel.
Earlier, the Palestinian Ministry of Education stated in a release that more than 15,000 children in the Gaza Strip, the majority of whom are school students and kindergarteners, have fallen victim to the war initiated by Israel since October 7.
The ministry’s statement, coinciding with the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression on June 4, emphasized that “the most prominent aspect of this occasion is (the children of Gaza) as they are the largest victims of Israel’s war on Gaza, paying a heavy price as a result of this aggression and its severe impact on them.”
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk called for an end to the “unprecedented bloodshed” in the occupied West Bank and stressed that Israel’s killing of more than 500 Palestinians there since October 7 is “illogical.”
In his statement, Turk mentioned, “As if the tragic events in Israel and then in Gaza over the past eight months were not enough, the residents of the occupied West Bank are subjected to unprecedented bloodshed day after day. It is absolutely illogical that this large number of lives is being claimed in such a brutal manner.”
