Health officials have said that Israel’s 24-day military operation in northern Gaza has claimed over 1,000 lives, predominantly women and children. On Sunday, Israeli forces killed at least 53 people in Gaza and 21 in Lebanon, as UN Secretary-General António Guterres voiced horror at the situation in northern Gaza, which has been subjected to an intensified Israeli siege and brutal attacks. “The plight of Palestinian civilians trapped in North Gaza is unbearable,” Guterres’s spokesman Stephane Dujarric said. “The Secretary-General is shocked by the harrowing levels of death, injury and destruc…