A Palestinian child dies every ten minutes in Gaza due to Israeli attacks.
- November 5, 2023
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A child has died and two have been injured every ten minutes in the Gaza Strip since the war between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas began on
A child has died and two have been injured every ten minutes in the Gaza Strip since the war between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas began on October 7, a situation that has turned the Palestinian enclave into a “children’s cemetery,” according to UNICEF.
“Gaza has become children’s cemetery “and it’s hell on earth for everyone else” who lives in the Strip, United Nations Children’s Agency (UNICEF) spokesman James Elder said today, emphasizing that the number of child deaths “sadly increases substantially every day.”
Images captured by mobile phones or local journalists and shared on social media corpses of children and traumatized minors have devastating consequences.
“Time costs lives. We call for an immediate ceasefire. There is no safe place in Gaza,” the NGO wrote. Save the children on social network X (formerly Twitter) to influence these statistics.
The Gaza Ministry of Health published today that at least 4,000 minors died8,067 people were injured and 1,250 are considered missing under the rubble of buildings destroyed by continuous attacks by the Israel Defense Forces.
On October 17, Save the Children said that “more than 1,000 boys and girls have died in 11 days of war, according to the latest available data.” airstrikes on the Gaza Stripwhich is equivalent to one every 15 minutes.”
A clear indicator that the targeting of minors is becoming increasingly harsh.
“The situation is clearly not improving. Every day, about 420 children die or are injured – obviously a terrible number,” Toby Fricker, also from UNICEF, told EFE.
Fricker assured that there are many casualty figures circulating, “but the reality is that too many children are dying or injured every day, so UNICEF and the Secretary-General UN We have called for an immediate ceasefire many, many times and continue to demand it.”
There are no safe places for children in Gaza
The UNICEF representative insisted that parties to conflict must protect children and civilians during hostilities.
“Right now there is no safe place for children in Gaza“Fricker said, recalling that about half of the strip’s residents are children, which means that about a million minors live on this piece of land.
“Now that many displaced“(Children) live in shelters in schools and other places, and they do not have access to basic services such as drinking water, health care or hygiene,” he adds, before highlighting that even before the war began, the Gaza Strip was already suffering from “great humanitarian needs”.
Yesterday UNICEF condemned attacks on two schools At least 35 people, including children, have died in the past 24 hours, with 73% of the victims being minors, children and the elderly, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
In a statement released today, the ministry also condemns the destruction of more than 200,000 homes, more than half of Gaza.
“It’s obvious that class “He wants to set a record of his crimes against our Palestinian people in front of the whole world,” ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said.
Israel accuses Hamas of using children as human shields
Israel rejects information offered Hamas and justifies its actions on the grounds that Hamas militants and commanders are using civilians as human shields.
In this spirit, today in a video released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Israeli soldiers show the alleged site used for rocket launch which is located near the children’s pool in a residential area of the Beit Hanoun area.
“These are just some of the many examples of how Hamas is using Gazan civilians as human shields“, the Israeli ministry said in a statement.
Also today, the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu, insisted that the Armed Forces “follow the highest international standards to avoid harm to people not involved in the conflict.” He said this after disavowing far-right Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu, who had assured that launching an atomic bomb against the Gaza Strip could be an option for war. EFE
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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