Gaza ‘most dangerous place in the world to be a child’: UNICEF
- November 22, 2023
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Band Gaza ‘is the most dangerous place in the world to be a child today’This was stated by the Executive Director of the United Nations Children’s Agency (UNICEF)
Band Gaza ‘is the most dangerous place in the world to be a child today’This was stated by the Executive Director of the United Nations Children’s Agency (UNICEF) Catherine Russell.
Russell spoke this Wednesday via videoconference before the UN Security Council at a meeting specifically dedicated to The impact of war on women and children in the Gaza Strip and Israel.
Bombings killed 5,300 Palestinian children in 46 days
A director who has just returned from a trip to Gaza, from which she returned. “horrified”this is detailed Bombings killed 5,300 Palestinian children in 46 dayswhich is equivalent to “more than 115 per day”, representing 40% of the total deaths in the Gaza Strip.
All this, he added, not counting 1,200 children are believed to still be buried under the rubble destroyed buildings that cannot yet be considered dead.
In addition, he warned about the future of children who survive this war:
Their lives will be irrevocably changed by repeated exposure to trauma; Violence and seizures around them can cause toxic stress that will interfere with their physical and cognitive development.
Before the war, more than half a million children needed psychological help.
And he recalled that even before the war, more than half a million children in Gaza needed psychological help.
UN Women Director Sima Bacchus also spoke, emphasizing the terrible situation of the mothers of Gaza, who during the war First of all, they try to protect their children.
In the Gaza Strip, two mothers die violently every hour
“The women of Gaza tell us that they pray for peace, but if peace does not come, they pray for a quick death while they sleep and with their children in their arms.
“We should all be embarrassed that any mother would say such a prayer,” he told council members.
He recalled that “every hour in the Gaza Strip, two mothers die violently, and seven women die every hour. We mourn them.” (EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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