The one-week truce is over and Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip has continued.
A Hamas official told Al Jazeera that prisoner exchange negotiations have stopped and will not resume until Israel ends its bombardment and hands over all Palestinian prisoners.
Al Jazeera also reported that Israel ordered its Mossad negotiating team in Doha to return to the country because they say they are at an “impasse.”
According to Reuters, since the end of the ceasefire, updates on Palestinian casualties have become irregular.
However, on Monday, the Gaza Health Ministry raised the death toll to 15,899.
To put that into perspective, Scotiabank Arena during a Leafs game has a capacity of 19,800. That means almost a stadium full of people have been murdered since the bombardment began eight weeks ago.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), over two-thirds of those killed are women and children.
WHO also says that 42,003 people have been injured — mostly women and children. WHO also notes that the bed occupancy rate in Gazan hospitals is 171 percent and ICU occupancy has reached 221 percent.
Last week Israeli magazine +972 released a lengthy article, written by Yuval Abraham, that highlights how Israel chooses the targets it bombs. This includes non-military targets which Israel has deemed permissible.
In a shocking revelation, Abraham’s +972 article unearths how the IDF uses artificial intelligence to “generate” targets.
In other news, UN officials have issued a serious warning that the risk of “atrocities” is growing in Gaza, according to Al Jazeera.
“Palestinians in Gaza are living in utter deepening horror,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, said Wednesday.
On Tuesday UNRWA posted a BBC interview with Juliette Touma, a spokeswoman for the agency, on X. Touma says that “there is no ‘safe zone’ in Gaza.” and that “the whole of the Gaza Strip has become one of the most dangerous places in the world.”
The situation is now more dire than ever. The bombardment persists with no talks of another ceasefire in sight.