About 28 children are killed daily in Gaza due to the current Israeli bombing and its restrictions on the delivery of humanitarian assistance that needs, according to the United Nations.
“Death by bombing. Death by malnutrition and famine. Death for lack of aid and vital services,” the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
“In Gaza, on average 28 children per day – the size of a classroom – were killed.”
The agency pointed out that Gaza children have an urgent need for food, drinking water, drugs and protection, adding: “More than anything, they need a ceasefire now.”
Death by bombing.
Death by malnutrition and famine.
Death for lack of help and vital services.
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Israel has killed more than 18,000 children – a child every hour – since the start of his genocidal war against Gaza. At least 60,933 Palestinians were killed and 150,027 others injured since October 7, 2023 when Hamas attacked southern Israel.
In the past 24 hours, at least eight Palestinians, including a child, are hungry to death in Gaza. A total of 188 people, including 94 hungry children, died while Israel continues to block help and kill aid seekers.
“For those who survive, childhood has been replaced by a daily struggle for the bases of life,” said Aksel Zaimovic of Tel Aviv Tribune.
Kadim Khufu Basim, a moved Palestinian child, said he was forced to support a family of six because his father is injured and receives treatment in Egypt.
“I love playing football. But now I am selling cookies. My childhood has disappeared. Since the start of the war, there has left Basim left in Tel Aviv Tribune.
Under international law, children and Basim are supposed to be spared the effects of war.
“But in Gaza, these children have suffered the most in the military campaign of Israel. Schools have deliberately targeted, destroyed water facilities, food supplies have systematically blocked. And the fundamental rights of childhood … Education, game, appropriate nutrition … were armed against a whole generation, “said Zaimovic.
“A cemetery for children”
The War of Israel against Gaza also leaves its psychological scars on children.
Lana’s hair and skin, a 10 -year -old out -of -board child, became white almost overnight after a bombing near his shelter has triggered what doctors call the depigmentation induced by trauma. Lana has become removed, often speaking only to her doll, because other children intimidated her for her appearance.
“She speaks to her doll and said,” Do you want to play with me, or will you be like other children? ” His mental health is seriously damaged, “said May Jalal Al-Sharif, Lana’s mother in Tel Aviv Tribune.
“Gaza is a cemetery for children today and for their dreams,” Ahmad Alhendawi, regional director of the NGO Save the Children told Tel Aviv Tribune. “It is an essential living nightmare for each child in Gaza … It is a generation that grows thinking that the world has abandoned them, that the world has turned their backs on them.”
Israel has closed the passages of Gaza since March 2, having only 86 aid trucks in the besieged enclave daily, a figure equal to only 14% of the 600 minimum trucks necessary each day to meet the basic needs of the population, according to data from the Gaza Government Media Office. The lack of help led to unprecedented famine in Gaza.
United Nations experts and more than 150 humanitarian organizations have called for a permanent ceasefire, to allow childhood delivery and the psychological recovery of what they have nicknamed a “lost generation”.
