Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza after a two-week siege laid by the Israeli military (Tasnim Photo Fair Use)
Six months have passed since Israel began military operations against Palestinian Gaza Strip.
During this period, approximately 33,000 Palestinians were brutally massacred by Israeli forces and approximately 75,890 were injured.
Data shows that damage to critical infrastructure in Gaza exceeds US$18.5 billion, and the entire population suffers from severe food insecurity and malnutrition.
The severity of the situation led the UN Security Council to adopt a resolution in March calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
However, contrary to the international community's consistent demands, Zionists' genocidal atrocities are becoming more violent day by day.
In the recent military operation against al-Shifa Hospital, Israeli forces committed crimes against humanity by massacring at least 400 innocent Palestinians and reducing the hospital to ashes.
A tragedy occurred in which members of an international humanitarian organization carrying out food aid projects in Gaza Strip lost their lives in an airstrike by the Israeli military.
Israel's military indiscretions are now extending beyond Gaza Strip to neighboring countries.
On the 1st, an Israeli fighter jet fired six missiles at the consulate building of the Iranian Embassy in Syria, killing several people, including the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. On the 5th, several villages and small towns in southern Lebanon were subjected to indiscriminate air strikes. Six people lost their lives and 11 were injured.
The international community strongly condemns the war hysteria of Israeli warmongers, calling it "excessive."
The Iranian government defined the airstrike against the consulate building of its embassy in Syria as an act of terrorism and said it would never tolerate this criminal act and would take countermeasures.
Many countries, including China, Egypt, and Cyprus, said that Israel's atrocity of murder against members of humanitarian organizations in Gaza Strip could never be tolerated and demanded an immediate and thorough investigation and punishment of those responsible.
The Arab League in a statement warned of the dangers of Israel's airstrikes, saying they were aimed at expanding the war and causing chaos in the region.
The question is, who is the real culprit of the atrocities committed without hesitation in front of humanity?
The unanimous opinion around the world is that it is thanks to the active support and assistance from the United States that Israeli warmongers are able to carry out indiscriminate military operations despite protests and criticism from the international community.
As soon as the resolution for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza was adopted by the UN Security Council, the United States declared that the resolution was non-binding and that no policy change would result. Shortly thereafter, the US decided to transfer billions of dollars worth of bombs and fighter jets to Israel. This clearly reveals its identity as a criminal promoting Zionists' genocidal atrocities.
On the 3rd, the US blocked the UNSC from adopting a statement condemning Israel's atrocities, saying the full extent of the airstrike on the consulate building of Iranian Embassy in Syria was unclear.
Thanks to this active support from the US, Israel calls the mass killings in Gaza Strip "elimination of armed elements" and shamelessly distorts Iranian embassy's airstricken consulate building by saying it is an "Iranian military facility in Syria." It has the shamelessness of absurd sophistry, such as saying that the killing of members of humanitarian organizations in Gaza Strip is an "unintentional tragedy" and "something that can happen in war."
It is no coincidence that foreign media outlets, including the British Guardian, claim that the bloodshed in Middle East, including Gaza Strip, will not be resolved unless the US position on Israel changes substantially.
As the situation in Middle East worsens day by day, the world is once again witnessing clearly who destroys peace and stability and who is the real culprit of the massacre.
Source: kcna.kp (Juche 113.4.9.)
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