The United Nations children’s fund has warned against a growing risk of losing an entire generation of Palestinian children as the education system is in a state of “collapse” after two years of Israeli genocidal war in Gaza.
Save the Children said on Sunday that at least one Palestinian child has been killed every hour on average by Israeli forces in Gaza over nearly 23 months of war.
The World Health Organization (WHO) says more than 15,600 people in Gaza, including 3,800 children are in urgent need of medical evacuation from the war-torn territory.
“The crisis has a disproportionate and devastating impact on women and girls. They have suffered from systematic discrimination and exclusion for decades,” Tom Fletcher, under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator told the Security Council.
James Elder told a UN briefing in Geneva that a peer-reviewed report in “The Lancet” had reported numbers of casualties exceeding those reported by the Palestinian Health Ministry, which had reported upwards of 15,000 children having been killed.
Speaking at the Humanitarian situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories debate at the Westminster Hall on Tuesday, Labour lawmaker, Patricia Ferguson, referenced parliamentary evidence given by retired vascular surgeon, Prof. Nizam Mamode, who has returned to the UK from Gaza and explained how Israel deliberately targeted the Palestinian children....
The report added that 11 were killed and 108 were wounded on Saturday, noting that there are still citizens under the rubble, missing persons and body parts, according to the National News Agency. The Ministry of Health said more than 1,000 Lebanese have been killed and 6,000 wounded over the past two weeks alone.
An American Jewish doctor who volunteered to help in Gaza hospitals recounts the horrible condition of those injured in Israeli onslaughts saying that regime forces deliberately kill Palestinian children.
The United Nations Population Fund UNFPA has warned against the repercussions of malnutrition on the pregnant women and new born babies in Gaza as the Israeli regime continues genocidal war and blockade of the crossings into the war-torn strip.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said 90 percent of the people in Gaza Strip, many of them children, have been displaced since Israeli regime began onslaughts on the besieged Strip on October 7.
The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) says due to Israel’s genocidal war, an average of ten children in Gaza lose one or both of their legs every day.
The UN agency for children (UNICEF) has warned that nearly 3,000 Palestinian minors in south Gaza are at risk of death due to being cut off from treatment for moderate and severe malnutrition.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that 8,000 Palestinian children blow five years of age have been afflicted with acute malnutrition as a result of the Israeli regime’s incessant atrocities.
The United Nations has added Israeli army to “parties that commit grave violations affecting children in situation of armed conflict” after over eight months of genocidal war killing mainly women and children in the besieged Gaza Strip.
Toys collected at the scene of a house targeted by Israeli forces shows children were among the residents. With the Israeli atrocities in its sixth month now, more than 31,000 Palestinians have lost their lives as a result of Israeli aggressions most of them children and women.