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Gaza: 7,000+ children dead, survivors permanently disabled [1]
['Jordan News', 'Last Updated']
Date: 2023-12-20 23:00:00
GAZA
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Children of #Gaza! pic.twitter.com/ZhMGu1wYn2 — The Palestinian (@InsiderWorld_1) December 15, 2023
UNRWA estimates that 85 percent of the population in the Gaza Strip has been displaced from their homes, with 1.4 million of them present in shelters under catastrophic conditions.
Children suffer most from the lack of electricity, medicine, food, and water. That is aside from the psychological traumas they endure. Thousands of children have lost their families, wandering without shelter or care from anyone. While others are sick and cannot find treatment or medication.
Paramedics rescue children following an Israeli air strike in Deir Al Balah, central Gaza. pic.twitter.com/cx4iOpK9o1 — Eye on Palestine (@EyeonPalestine) December 19, 2023
The overcrowded shelters place children under harsh conditions: sleeping in the cold weather without any bedding, going to bed hungry, and experiencing haunting nightmares from the terror of Israeli airstrikes. Numerous scenes scattered online show children helping their families gather supplies, like tree leaves and firewood, to light a fire and prepare bread to satiate their hunger.
Hamoud, a 13-year-old boy, has been displaced from his home for more than two months due to the bombings. He recalls the unforgettable sights of the martyrs, wounded, and destruction, that live in his memory. Similarly, Fadi, a 12-year-old boy, seeks shelter with his family in a reinforced nylon tent at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, where he witnesses ambulances carrying the martyrs and wounded on the daily.
Gaza doesn’t have enough food for the children. Don’t stop talking about Gaza. pic.twitter.com/Gy9fNLLt1U — Mohamad Safa (@mhdksafa) December 19, 2023
With every passing moment of aggression, bombing, and destruction, the children of the Gaza Strip pay a deadly price with their lives.
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— Since Oct. 7, over 7,000 children have been killed in Gaza, with a large number of children still under the rubble and assumed dead. Meanwhile, a large number of the survivors have been left permanently disabled, with no shelter, and have lost either one or both parents.UNICEF previously described Gaza as the "most dangerous place in the world for children" as it has become a graveyard for thousands of children, adding "millions of children in Gaza are also suffering a water crisis, as the water production in Gaza barely surpasses a mere 5 percent of its usual daily output. The fatalities among children, particularly infants, due to drought, pose a growing and imminent threat." Even international and Palestinian institutions estimate that the current number of displaced children is more than a million, Al-Ghad reported.
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