The rubble called Gaza

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It has been 19 months since the war on Gaza reconvened and, in that time, deaths of more than 53,000 Palestinians have been documented. This bars those who were buried without being registered or those who went missing beneath rubble.

At least 94% of all hospitals in the Gaza Strip have been damaged or destroyed. Almost 90% of all school buildings have been smashed up and rendered inoperative. Even if some of the schools are operational, there are barely any children to attend them because Israel has killed at least 17,000 Palestinian children.

Yet, despite all that brutality, Israel has still found room to commit even graver acts of violence. UN Secretary General António Guterres has recently relayed warnings about "what may be the cruellest phase of this cruel conflict" amidst an intensified military offense by Israel that only promises further death and destruction.

It is difficult to assess the exact number of Palestinians killed in a day, because overnight attacks continue well into the mornings, and do not stop even then. Moreover, the Palestinian population is now battling an increasing number of starvation-related deaths alongside mounting injuries. Days in the Gaza Strip bleed into one another as a relentlessly rising death toll overwhelms a healthcare system that is now at its breaking point.

Israel's escalation of its military operations has rendered four major hospitals inoperable in the past week and threatens to push even more healthcare facilities out of service in upcoming days. Not only that, but when lawless Israeli tactics — forced evacuations, aid blockades and bombing of designated safe zones — drive people to seek medical help, the military further obstructs access by impeding staff from providing care.

The situation has escalated to a point where any and all international efforts for handling this crisis are "far too little, too late, and too slow", as echoed by a German government spokesperson.

All this — and the violence is still surging.