Two Years of Genocide: Numbers Reflect Scale of Zionist Crimes & Palestinian Suffering

General

Gaza: With the completion of two years since the crime of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and the ongoing war of starvation, the world has become increasingly aware of the magnitude of the crimes against humanity being inflicted upon the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip by the fascist Israeli army, despite the misleading media machinery of the global powers, led by the United States and Israel. According to Yemen News Agency, no one now denies the genocide being committed by the Israeli occupation army against the Palestinian people in Gaza for the past two years-except for former U.S. President Donald Trump and war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court, along with their cohorts-after the world witnessed the scale of Zionist crimes against Gaza residents since 7 October 2023, which continue to this day. From the very first day of the genocide, the Israeli occupation army, under the directives of its political and military leadership, deliberately pursued a policy of mass killing against civilians without distinction or red lines, focusing on densely populated areas and refugee settlements, using weapons of mass destruction, including concussion bombs, explosive drones, armored vehicles, and car bombs. The numbers of atrocities committed by the Israeli army over 732 days stand as a living testimony to the brutality, Nazism, and fascism of this enemy. Several Palestinian authorities and international organizations, including the Government Media Office and the Ministry of Health in Gaza, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), the International Commission to Support the Rights of the Palestinian People (HESD), the Palestine Information Center (MAATA), and other organizations, have issued statistical reports on the scale of losses during two years of genocide, which were documented by the Yemen News Agency (SABA) in this report. According to a statistical report by the Media Office in Gaza, more than 2.4 million people in Gaza continue to face genocide, starvation, and ethnic cleansing, as the Israeli enemy has destroyed 90% of the Gaza Strip across all sectors over 730 days, dropping 200,000 tons of explosives across various areas. While the Government Media Office states that 80% of Gaza's territory is under Israeli control through invasion, fire, and displacement, UNRWA confirms that 83% of the area is under Israeli military control, military zones, or evacuation orders. As for the Al-Mawasi area in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, which the Israeli army claims is a 'safe humanitarian zone,' it has been bombed 136 times, resulting in the martyrdom of hundreds and injuries to dozens. The brutal massacres have not stopped over the past two years. According to reports from the Government Media Office and the Ministry of Health in Gaza, the total number of martyrs and missing persons since the start of the genocide is 76,639, including 67,173 martyrs who reached hospitals, while 9,500 remain missing, some still under rubble or with unknown f ates. The reports confirm that 55% of these martyrs are children, women, and the elderly. On a daily average, over the two years of continuous genocide, the Israeli army kills 92 Palestinians every day, including 27 children, 14 women, 12 mothers, and 30 fathers, and commits massacres against 53 families daily, completely wiping out 4 families and leaving only a single survivor in 8 families. Data from the Ministry of Health in Gaza confirms that 460 of these martyrs died from famine and malnutrition caused by the enemy's starvation campaign. The number of children martyred has exceeded 20,000, with more than 19,450 reaching hospitals, including 1,015 children under the age of one who were martyred, as well as more than 450 infants born and martyred during the genocidal war, according to the government media office. Meanwhile, the Gaza Ministry of Health confirms the death of 154 children due to famine and malnutrition, and that 5,580 children need to travel abroad for treatment to save their lives. The Palestine Information Center (Ma'ta) points out that 650,000 children are at risk of death from malnutrition, including 40,000 infants threatened with starvation due to a lack of baby formula. Among the martyrs, more than 12,500 were women, with over 10,160 reaching hospitals, including more than nine thousand mothers. The number of martyred fathers reached 22,426. Among the targeted categories of martyrs by the enemy army, there were 1,701 medical personnel, 255 journalists, 140 civil defense members, 176 municipal employees in Gaza, including 4 mayors, 894 sports figures from all sports disciplines, and 787 police officers and aid security personnel. Because this is a genocidal war and ethnic cleansing, the Zionist enemy has targeted entire families wherever possible, aiming to completely erase thousands of families from the civil registry. More than 39,022 families were subjected to Zionist massacres, with over 2,700 families completely wiped out from the civil registry, totaling 8,574 martyrs, while mo re than 6,020 families were annihilated leaving only a single survivor, totaling 12,917 martyrs. The government media report confirms that 42% of kidney patients lost their lives due to lack of food and medical care caused by the Zionist blockade, while Gaza witnessed more than 12,000 miscarriages among pregnant women due to food shortages, inadequate medical care, and the effects of continuous bombing. The report also notes that 17 Palestinians were martyred due to cold in forced displacement camps, including 14 children, while 23 people were martyred due to incorrectly airdropped aid. The scale of the genocide becomes clearer when reviewing the most prominent massacres committed by the enemy army over the past two years. Here we recall only the top five massacres out of thousands of Zionist massacres. The first massacre occurred at Al-Ma'madani Hospital in Gaza City on October 17, 2024, in which more than 500 Palestinians were martyred, mostly women and children who had sought refuge in the hospital aft er receiving threats from the enemy army to bomb surrounding residential areas. In an operation carried out by the enemy army on Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City from March 18 to April 1, 2024, a horrific massacre was committed in which more than 400 Palestinians were martyred, including displaced people, medical personnel, government employees, and civilians near the largest medical complex in Gaza. After bombing and besieging Al-Shifa Complex, enemy soldiers stormed the complex, firing on patients in their beds and on doctors who refused orders to leave and abandon their patients. After the withdrawal of the enemy forces, three mass graves were discovered in the complex courtyard, along with bodies of martyrs bound. One of the largest massacres during the first year of the Israeli aggression occurred on June 8, 2024, when Israeli air and artillery strikes targeted the Nuseirat Camp, resulting in the martyrdom of 274 Palestinians, including 64 children and 57 women. At that time, the enemy army just ified the massacre as an attempt to rescue 4 Israeli captives held by Hamas, while the Al-Qassam Brigades announced that the bombing caused hundreds of Palestinian casualties and the deaths of three Israeli captives held by them. On November 18, 2023, the enemy army carried out another horrific massacre, killing 200 Palestinians, mostly women and children, when it targeted Al-Fakhoura School in Jabalia Camp, northern Gaza, which sheltered displaced people. On the same day, in the same camp, the enemy army carried out another massacre by bombing Tal Al-Za'atar School, which also housed displaced people, killing 50 martyrs. The Nabulsi Roundabout massacre occurred on February 29, 2024, when the Israeli army opened fire on hundreds of Palestinian civilians gathered to receive aid near Nabulsi Roundabout southwest of Gaza City, resulting in the martyrdom of 120 people and wounding 760 others, in a massacre known as the 'Flour Massacre.' On May 27, and in an attempt to whitewash its criminal image before the wo rld, the Israeli entity began implementing a mechanism to distribute limited aid through what is called the 'Gaza Humanitarian Relief Foundation' in specific areas, which Palestinians have dubbed 'death traps'. These were not 'humanitarian' places but locations where the enemy army deliberately gathered the largest number of aid-seekers at distribution points and then opened fire on them, causing thousands of the 'starving' to be killed or injured. The United Nations, its agencies, and international relief organizations declared their rejection of this 'Israeli-American' mechanism, considering it inhumane and responsible for thousands of deaths and injuries. According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, the total number of victims seeking basic sustenance who reached hospitals to date has reached 2,610 martyrs and more than 19,143 injured. Among the most notable days when the enemy army committed massacres against aid-seekers, the 'starving' in the 'death traps', was the killing of 59 Palestinians and injuring of over 200 others waiting for aid in Khan Yunis and Rafah in southern Gaza, after being shelled by the enemy on June 17, and the day before, 38 starving were killed and 182 injured. An even larger massacre occurred on June 11, when 57 starving were killed and 363 injured near aid distribution centers in Gaza, and the day before, 36 starving were killed and 124 injured by enemy fire