Injured Palestinian teenager, his face covered in blood, cries as rescuers try to pull him out of the rubble of a building destroyed after an Israeli air strike in the Bureij refugee camp, Gaza Strip on February 2 November 2023. (AP Photo/Mohammed) Dahman)
A teenager, his face covered in blood, screamed as rescuers tried to pull him out of the rubble of a building destroyed after an Israeli air strike on Gaza. An elderly Israeli hostage had bruises all over his body when he was taken away by Hamas. While the old lady was trembling in fear, the man holding a machine gun sitting behind her smiled… Those are some heartbreaking and scary images of the bloody war between Israel and Hamas that was triggered in the past few months. later this year when the Palestinian armed group conducted a raid on the Jewish State, killing 1,200 people on October 7, according to AP.
Israel then launched a bloody war of revenge against Hamas forces in Gaza. However, Israel’s military campaign faced fierce criticism because innocent civilians in Gaza were said to have died twice as often as Hamas fighters because of the Jewish State’s indiscriminate attacks on civilian areas. crowded. Palestinian Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf Al-Qudra said on December 15 that since October 7, Israel’s attack on Gaza has killed 18,787 people and injured 50,897 people.
Fire broke out when an Israeli mobile artillery unit fired a projectile from southern Israel toward the Gaza Strip, at a location near the Israel-Gaza border on October 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Erik Marmor)
In another equally fierce war, a 10-year-old girl cried next to her brother’s body as he was buried near Kiev, Ukraine. Throughout 2023, bloody fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces, which has left hundreds of thousands dead, continues without pause…
A Ukrainian soldier of the 10th Edelweiss Assault Brigade fires a D-30 cannon toward Russian positions on the front line near Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine on July 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Libkos)
Not only the Israel-Hamas war or the fierce Russia-Ukraine war, 2023 has shown the danger of armed conflicts breaking out into bloody wars in countries across the globe, from Afghanistan to Yemen.
Coups and violence across Africa have upended life in countries there. Sudan, a large East African country, was engulfed in civil war in April after the ouster of longtime leader Omar al-Bashir. In Niger, a former French colony and important uranium exporter, the military also staged a coup, ousting the country’s democratically elected president in July. A month later, Gabon’s military also carried out a coup. staged a similar coup, overthrowing the long-ruling president in this Central African country.
Myanmar in Southeast Asia also faces what some experts describe as a blazing civil war. Violence due to drug trafficking continues and causes much suffering in Central and South America.
India and Pakistan – two countries that possess nuclear weapons – still suspect each other. North Korea’s nuclear arsenal continues to grow. And Iran is now enriching uranium closer to weapons-grade levels than ever before.
“Conflicts are becoming more complex, more dangerous and more difficult to resolve. … Concerns about the possibility of nuclear war have reappeared. New areas of conflict and potential weapons of war are creating new ways in which humanity can destroy each other,” UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres once warned.