The Palestinian death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 53,762, with 122,197 others injured since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas conflict in early October 2023, according to a statement released Thursday by Gaza-based health authorities.
The statement said that since Israel resumed intensive airstrikes on March 18, following the collapse of a two-month ceasefire, at least 3,613 Palestinians have been killed and 10,156 injured.
In the past 24 hours alone, 107 Palestinians were killed and 247 others injured in Israeli military operations, according to Gaza's civil defense and health authorities.
Since the outbreak of the latest large-scale conflicts between Israel and Palestinians, Israeli military actions have caused the death of 16,503 Palestinian children and adolescents, Gaza-based health authorities said.
The health authorities also reported that since the conflicts, 343 newborns have tragically passed away shortly after birth.
Palestinian death toll in Gaza rises to 53,762
Nicaragua's co-foreign minister Valdrack Jaentschke has warned that militarism must never be allowed to rise again, as Japan's recent moves to lift its arms export ban and revise the pacifist Constitution continue to draw international concern.
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the opening of the Tokyo Trials, where Japan's Class-A war criminals from World War II were brought to justice.
In an interview with China Global Television Network (CGTN), Valdrack Jaentschke voiced his concern that today's world order is being undermined by interventionism and other challenges.
"It is necessary for us to remember that after the end of World War II, countries worked hard to build a new international order based on international law. However, regrettably, more than 80 years later, we are seeing that this once explored and attempted order is being challenged by interventionism, a confrontational mindset, and tendencies like 'might makes right.' These are precisely the conditions that gave rise to fascism and militarism in the past, which ultimately led to the tragedy of World War II," he said.
He said the international community has a responsibility to pursue a new international order -- one fundamentally grounded in peace.
"Looking back at the history more than eight decades ago and comparing it with today's reality, it is our responsibility to recognize that the world should, and must, build a new international order that is more just, fairer, rooted in international law, based on a logic of mutual benefit and shared success, and fundamentally grounded in peace," said the minister.
"Today, as we revisit the Tokyo Trials, it is meant to remind the world that such a tragedy must never be repeated -- and that we must do everything in our power to prevent it from happening again. We must stop that dark world -- born from militarism, interventionism, and fascism -- from ever returning," he said.
Nicaraguan FM warns of militarism revival
