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With more than 2,360 children killed among the more than 5,700 killed in the Gaza war, many parents in the strip prefer write your children’s names on your
With more than 2,360 children killed among the more than 5,700 killed in the Gaza war, many parents in the strip prefer write your children’s names on your hands children to facilitate their identification if they die as a result of Israel’s intense and indiscriminate bombing of the enclave.
A gesture that even the children themselves have begun to make among themselves, although some are so small that they do not even understand what it means.
Perhaps it is minors who bear the brunt of this crime.war in the Gaza Strip between Israel and Hamaswhich began with an attack by an Islamist group on October 7 that killed more than 1,400 people on Israeli soil and took 220 hostage.
On the night from Monday to Tuesday alone, at least 130 people died because of the incident, most of them women and minors. Israeli airstrikes in areas of the Strip such as Jabaliya and the area around Gaza City.
South of the sector, where it is estimated more than a million people left from the north in search of safer areas, it is not immune to the bombings that hit the Rafah and Khan Younis areas every day.
In Deir el-Balah, also in the southern part of the sector, an entire family with minors and women died in the last few hours. And even after death, they could not rest in peace, because the hospital where the bodies were taken could not find living relatives to bury them, and they had to turn to neighbors with a request to help with the funeral.
The Netil family is from a rural area. refugees Al-Nuseirat suffered the same fate, and rescue teams found the children’s bodies with their names written on their arms and legs, something their adult relatives may have done to ensure their safety. correct identification in case of death and be buried together, which is what eventually happened.
Urfisal al-Jaafari, a 32-year-old mother of six children aged 13 to 2, is afraid of what might happen to her children: two children, Mahmoud and Yazan, went to play in an alley near the house. uncle Urfisal in Rafah, when the shell fell at the only grocery store operating in the area.
“Thank God nothing happened to them, Mahmoud (7 years old) suffered a hand injury, but it was minor, he was operated on in hospital and has now been discharged,” Al Jafari sighed with relief in a statement to EFE.
Despite this, most Children died as a result of the attack– pointed out this woman who could not indicate the number.
The attacked store “is the only one in the area, it is full of children and young people who usually go shopping, play in the alley,” explained Al Yafari, who was preparing dinner when the explosion occurred.
One of her husband’s uncles died from head injuries sustained in the attack, and another was injured.
ambulances It took them a while to get there burst Therefore, residents of the neighborhood who came to help the victims resorted to the help of personal cars and tuktuks.
After this incident, Al Jafari said that she was “afraid” for her children: “I worry about them.”
“Children play outside all day long,” he continued, “they don’t understand that there is war“They are trying to lead a normal life, we can’t keep them at home.”
At least 870 children are missing under the rubble of collapsed buildings in Gaza, according to the NGO Save the Children, while ongoing bombing, damage to infrastructure such as roads and fuel shortages are hampering rescue efforts.
A doctor from Al-Auda Hospital in northern Gaza, said Save the children that at this center they received the bodies of ten to twelve children, whose bodies were not identified or claimed by any member of the family.
He Ministry of Health Gaza received at least 1,550 reports of missing people who are still under the rubble, including 870 minors, the NGO recalled.
EFE
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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