Director of International Cooperation Save the children, Vicente Raymundoassures that “to be born in the Gaza Strip today is to be born dead“so what is needed”radical change“quickly and immediately” of the current situation in the Palestinian sector, which he calls “fire in hell“.

In an interview with EFE, she notes that two words currently characterize her: “unthinkable and catastrophic“When eight months had passed since the start of the war.

Raimundo visits Meeting at the campsite for peace, which is celebrated from this Friday to Sunday in the Spanish city of La Coruña, whose protagonists are refugee children and youth.

He admits that “almost no one expected this intensity and it’s not durationconflict, as well as catastrophic consequences What do you have”.

The Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip began in response to the Hamas attack on Israeli territory on October 7, which killed 1200 people And kidnapped 250.

Israeli operations caused more than 36,600 dead And 83,000 woundedbesides some 10,000 missing under rubble, according to Gaza’s Hamas-controlled Health Ministry.

Raimundo thinks it’s “a little absurd to categorize the best and the best.” worst place“, but “if Gaza is not now worst place on planet earth to be bornlittle will be missed,” although he also mentions “Sudan, Afghanistan or Yemen.”

In the case of Gaza, the NGO’s director of international cooperation focuses on ” lack of humanitarian access“.

“Sending eight months via entry IV in favor of the population, which before October 7 was depends on international assistance 80% of continuing to live is a situation that is impossible to imagine,” he describes.

Lost Future

Analyze the data and indicate that today “any indicator is catastrophicis the speed dead civilians, that is children dead, absence health careattacks on a medical mission, hunger or lack drinking water“.

In such a scenario, it is difficult to look to the future, but Raimundo warns that “as the situation lengthens, the suffering increases exponentially,” resulting in “lost lives and lost futures.”

“To be born in Gaza today is to be born dead“I mean that literally and figuratively,” he says. And remember that “there are various attempts of a political nature to at least provide a long break in which organizations with a humanitarian mandate can intervene.”

“Unless there is radical, rapid and immediate change,” Raimundo warns, “we are in for more fire in hell.”

The work of Save the Children, which works in Gaza Strip since the early 1950s, he has focused since October 7, 2023 on “the start of a humanitarian relief operation,” which he admitted “has been extremely difficult” and which “can be described as unsuccessful.”

He explains that the organization currently has “international and national personnel working in Gaza and a field hospital established in the south,” as well as transporting “trucks carrying staples from Egypt.”

He also warns of “a situation in the West Bank that is getting worse and worse”; Although the situation is not as serious as the Gaza Strip, it is experiencing a “crisis of childhood and a crisis of access.”

Childhood drama in other countries

Save the Children also looks at other places in the world where children are suffering, such as Sudan: “The civil war is spreading and the situation is terrifying“, this is “a terrible place for a boy or girl.”

“We must look away Afghanistanwhat’s happened entrenched conflictand there Being a girl is one of the worst things that can happen to you.and in population movements due to extreme violence or poverty that are occurring in the Americas, from Venezuela to Mexico,” he concludes.