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At least 68 children from Gaza They were transferred from a shelter inactive due to the war in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, to another shelter by
At least 68 children from Gaza They were transferred from a shelter inactive due to the war in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, to another shelter by the same organization in the Palestinian city of Bethlehem, the UN confirmed on Tuesday, after the German government sent a request to Israel.
“The group (of children) received permission from the Israeli authorities to Entry into Egypt through the Rafah crossing and then to Israel through the Taba checkpoint,” the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) detailed today.
Besides the children, all from 3 to 15 years old, Eleven staff and their families were also transferred from the SOS Children’s Villages orphanage, a German-funded project. to its other center in Bethlehema city located in the West Bank militarily occupied by Israel.
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The transfer is a temporary measure aimed at freeing them from the imminent danger they faced in the Gaza Strip, and not “an attempt to permanently resettle them,” the German Embassy warned in a report quoted today by the Israeli media Haaretz.
It is a minority gesture by Israel in the face of the humanitarian crisis caused by the war in the Gaza Strip, where some 13,000 children have died in a five-month offensive, according to the Palestinian government press office.
According to UNICEF estimatesabout 17,000 children in Gaza They are alone or separated from their parents, representing “one percent of a displaced population of 1.7 million people,” OCHA said today.
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In Rafah alone, “600,000 children are terrified of what is to come, from (re)displacement and the threat of bombing to hunger and disease,” UNICEF warned in a March 9 statement. “Many are suffering the unimaginable and are now trapped in an overcrowded space with death ever closer.”
Since the start of the Israeli offensive, which followed a Hamas attack that killed 1,200 people, more than 31,100 people have been killed – approximately 72% of them women and children – and nearly 73,000 have been wounded, while the UN estimates nearly 60 % Buildings on the Strip were damaged or destroyed in daily attacks.
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Source: Aristegui Noticias
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