The US defense minister’s admission of the martyrdom of more than 25 thousand Palestinian women and children in Gaza

The US Secretary of Defense (head of the Pentagon) Lloyd Austin, whose country has provided financial, military and security support to Israel in the Gaza war, admitted that more than 25,000 Palestinian women and children were martyred by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip. have arrived.

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said on Thursday local time at the hearing of the US Congress that since October 7, more than 25,000 Palestinian women and children living in Gaza have been killed by Israel, and “Israel can and should take more measures to protect Civilians should do.”

The American defense minister also announced that Washington has provided Israel with about 21,000 precision-guided weapons and bombs since the beginning of the war.

The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced in its latest statistics that the number of martyrs in Gaza since the beginning of the Israeli attacks on October 7 (October 15) has reached 30,035 people, and 70,457 Palestinian citizens have also been injured.

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Dozens of Palestinians were martyred by Israeli forces around the aid convoy in northern Gaza on Thursday. Hamas blames the Israeli forces for shooting at the Palestinian population, while Israel, in justifying its crime, claims that most of the casualties were caused by the crowding among the Palestinians, as the crowd rushed towards the trucks and looted them. /p>

Gaza health authorities say that at least 104 Palestinians were killed as a result of this Israeli attack, and the number of Palestinian casualties reached more than 30,000 during the 5-month war.

Gaza health authorities said that more than 750 people were injured as a result of the Israeli attack on Palestinians around the aid convoy. This incident happened when a convoy of 30 relief trucks arrived from Rafah to the north of Gaza to Al-Rashid Street in the west of Gaza City.

On October 15, 1402, on October 7, 2023, the Palestinian resistance groups launched a surprise operation called “Al-Aqsa Storm” from Gaza (southern Palestine) against the positions of the Israeli regime. On November 24, 2023, a four-day temporary ceasefire was established between Israel and Hamas, or a pause for the exchange of prisoners between Hamas and Israel.

This pause in the war continued for 7 days and finally on the morning of Friday, December 10, 2023, the temporary ceasefire ended and the Israeli regime resumed attacks on Gaza. In order to retaliate for the surprise attacks of the “Al-Aqsa storm” and to compensate for its defeat and stop the resistance operations, this regime has closed all the crossings of the Gaza Strip and is bombarding this area.

Source: IRNA