Gaza Strip: Israel Has Killed 16,480 Minors Since October
Displaced Persons in Gaza, Aug 2024 Photo: Middel East Eye
August 20, 2024 Hour: 4:41 pm
Last week, the executive director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef), Catherine Russell, called for a ceasefire, highlighting the suffering of the population there.
On Tuesday, an official source said that the Israeli army has killed 16,480 Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip since the start of its aggression in October last year.
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‘The Israeli occupation deliberately committed massacres against Palestinian children in Gaza in a clear and massive manner,’ Ismail Al-Thawabta, director general of the Government Information Office in Gaza, was quoted as saying by the Al Quds news portal.
He said 115 of those were born and died during the conflict.
In total, 35 died as a result of hunger and malnutrition, a situation that affects some 3,500 of them across the coastal enclave, he said.
Al-Thawabta noted that more than ‘17,000 children are living without their parents or a parent’ in the territory because they were killed by the Israeli military.
Last week, the executive director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef), Catherine Russell, called for a ceasefire, highlighting the suffering of the population there.
How many more children will die in Gaza or face unspeakable suffering before this nightmare ends, she asked on social media.
Earlier this month, Adele Khodr, UNICEF’s regional director for the Middle East and North Africa, also criticised the conflict.
‘The suffering is enormous and the impact is lifelong on a physical and psychological level,’ she wrote on X.
Days earlier, Unicef warned of the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza.
The ongoing hostilities have had an extremely worrying impact on the population, up to 1.9 million people, 90 percent of the total, are internally displaced, it said in a statement.
The food intake of young children and pregnant women is extremely limited, it said.
UNICEF said more than two million Gazans face high levels of acute food insecurity.
Autor: OSG
Fuente: The Independent-The Star
