Political economist Anas Iqtait said the recent Israeli strikes reflect a broader pattern of “complete disregard” by Israeli authorities towards Palestinians in Gaza.
“The entire civilian infrastructure that has been destroyed across the Gaza Strip is a testimony to that. The number of journalists who have been killed is another testimony to that,” the senior lecturer at the Australian National University told CNA’s Asia First.
“The number of medical workers in Gaza who have also been killed is another evidence that there is a policy that looks at the Palestinians at large in Gaza as targets, or looks at them with complete disregard to their individual rights to live in freedom in their own land.”
The war in Gaza was sparked by Hamas’s October 2023 attack on Israel, which resulted in the deaths of 1,219 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official figures.
Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed at least 62,744 Palestinians, most of them civilians, according to figures from the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza that the United Nations considers reliable.
