UNICEF: Israeli occupation kills 14,500 children in Gaza
GAZA, Dec. 15 (YPA) – The Israeli occupation forces have been killing 14,500 Palestinian children since the aggression on the Gaza Strip in Oct 7, 2023.
“There are 1.1 million children also in need of urgent protection and psychological support,” UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said in a statement. “The threat of famine still exists in the northern Gaza Strip, and “access to humanitarian aid is very limited.”
“The world continues to look the other way as Gaza’s children are subjected to daily bloodshed, hunger, disease and cold,” she stated, as the occupation’s genocidal war have been continued.
The statement added that the attack on the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza last Thursday raised the number of children killed in Gaza during the last month to more than 160, at a rate of 4 children per day since the beginning of last November.
Last Thursday, 40 Palestinians, including children and women, were killed and dozens were injured in the massacre the Israeli occupation army committed when it bombed a residential area in Nuseirat in Gaza.
“Children in Gaza are not responsible for the situation,” the UNICEF official explained. “They have no power to change it, but they are paying the ultimate price with their lives and their futures.”
The statement pointed out that “the children of Gaza are facing a shortage of food, clean water, medicine, and winter clothing, with the spread of preventable diseases, such as skin rashes and respiratory infections.”
A UN report had stated a few days ago that 70 present of Gaza’s victims were women and children, and 80 present of them were killed in their homes.
The death toll from the ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza has risen to 44,930 martyrs, the majority of whom are women and children, and 106,624 others have been injured, in an incomplete toll, as thousands of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, and ambulance and rescue crews cannot reach them, according to the Gaza-based Ministry of Health.
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