Adele Khodr, the Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa at the UN agency for children, has called upon global leaders to broker a ceasefire agreement, appealing to the world not consider what’s happening to children as a “new normal.”
She wrote on X that “With each day passing, the violence intensifies in Gaza: small children’s bodies being pulled out from under the rubble, injured children crying in fear with no safe space or place remaining for them.”
“The daily violence should not become the new normal. World leaders have to act to save children’s lives. A ceasefire is needed now,” she added.
Thousands of Palestinians fled parts of Deir Al-Balah as the Israeli military issued new evacuation orders, and its forces advanced deeper into the overcrowded central city.
With no safe place to go for, the conditions hold grim risks on the lives of children, who have been inflicted with many diseases dur to living in tents.
Around 33 percent of the victims are children, 18.4 percent are women, and 8.6 percent are elders, Health officials reported.
“The victims included 115 babies,” Ismail Thawabteh, who heads Gaza’s government media office, said.
He further showed that 35 Palestinian children have died from malnutrition and dehydration amid a tight Israeli blockade on the enclave.
“At least 3,500 children in Gaza are facing the risk of death amid a lack of food and malnutrition under Israeli restrictions on the delivery of food into Gaza,” he warned.
“More than 17,000 children have lost their parents or at least one of them after they were brutally killed by Israeli occupation forces,” Thawabteh said.
Shortlink for this post: https://daysofpalestine.ps/?p=56067
