Gaza Strip: A year of Israel’s brutal, devastating military onslaught and genocide

Today marks one year since Israel's genocidal war on the Gaza Strip began. Israeli forces have sustained their assaults across the Gaza Strip - and Lebanon - as memorials are held in Israel to honour those killed in the Hamas-led attack one year ago.

The Israeli brutal offensive in Gaza has laid waste to the densely populated coastal enclave and killed almost 42,000 Palestinians - or 41,909 according to the latest daily update from the Gaza Health Ministry.

Most of them are civilians, including more than 16,500 children according to UN figures. Meanwhile, 97,303 people have been wounded and 1.9 million people displaced in the space of one year, and 902 Palestinian families have been completely wiped out from registries.

These figures are only confirmed numbers and do not factor in the hundreds of thousands who are missing or still under the rubble, nor those who have been killed through a famine brought about by Israel's extreme siege on the strip which has led to a severe shortage of food, water and medicine.

The figures are also separate from those recorded in the West Bank and Lebanon, where more than 720 and 2000 people, respectively, have been killed in the space of a year.

Israel is continuing its brutal military campaign on the Gaza Strip, despite a UN resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire and Israel facing possible genocide charges at the International Court of Justice.