The UN confirmed this Tuesday that the 70% of Palestinian civilian victims of the war between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas are women and children, with more than 2,062 casualties among the first and 3,747 minors dead in the attacks of the Israeli Army, with which the total number of fatalities has exceeded 8,000among which there are many still unidentified.

In one of the attacks that produced the most victims this Monday, a bombing destroyed a wedding hall in the intermediate region between the south and north of the Gaza Strip (the latter under an evacuation order from Israel), where they had sought refuge. numerous displaced people, among whom there were 26 deaths.

In the same area, attacks were reported against different buildings, as well as against two hospitals, one located in Gaza City and the other in the north of the enclave. Both were bombed and damaged. According to the daily report on the situation in Gaza from the United Nations Humanitarian Aid Coordination Office, 13 hospitals continue to operate in both sectors – despite having received an evacuation order– given the impossibility of transferring the thousands of patients, medical personnel and internally displaced persons (about 117,000) who have sought refuge in these facilities.

The director of the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, has noted that the number of children killed in Gaza in three weeks “have surpassed the number of children killed annually in all conflict zones in the world since 2019“I have said it many times and I will say it again: nowhere is safe in Gaza,” Lazzarini said. “This forced displacement has left more than 670,000 people in overcrowded UNRWA schools and basements,” he added. emphasizing that “this can’t be collateral damage“, and has insisted on “collective punishment.”

A total of 26 trucks with humanitarian aid entered Gaza this Monday through Rafah, the border crossing with Egypt, but the UN has noted that although the amount of vital assistance that has entered in the last two days has increased, It is still very insufficient compared to the seriousness of the humanitarian situation.

Surprisingly, this Monday it was again interrupt for unknown reasons the water supply in southern Gazawhile a pipeline that carries this vital supply from Israel to the middle area of ​​the Palestinian territory has not been repaired.