UNICEF: Over 50,000 Children Killed or Injured in Gaza since October 2023
UNICEF warns of a staggering child death toll in Gaza,
urging immediate action to end the ongoing assault.
More than 50,000 children have been killed or injured
in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza since October 2023, the UN children’s fund
said on Wednesday.
“The children of Gaza need protection. They need food,
water, and medicine. They need a ceasefire. But more than anything, they need
immediate, collective action to stop this once and for all,” UNICEF’s Middle
East Director Edouard Beigbeder said in a statement.
He said at least 1,309 children have been killed and
3,738 others injured since Israel resumed its air assaults on Gaza on March 18.
“How many more dead girls and boys will it take? What
level of horror must be livestreamed before the international community fully
steps up, uses its influence, and takes bold, decisive action to force the end
of this ruthless killing of children?”
On Friday, Palestinian doctor Alaa al-Najjar, a
physician at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, lost nine of her 10 children, and
her husband, also a doctor, is in critical condition as a result of an Israeli
airstrike on their home.
And on Monday, at least 31 people, including 18
children, were burned to death in an Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter
in Gaza City.
“These children – lives that should never be reduced
to numbers – are now part of a long, harrowing list of unimaginable horrors:
the grave violations against children, the blockade of aid, the starvation, the
constant forced displacement, and the destruction of hospitals, water systems,
schools, and homes. In essence, the destruction of life itself in the Gaza
Strip,” Beigbeder said.
Ongoing Genocide
Since Israel’s reneging on the ceasefire on March 18,
it has killed and wounded thousands of Palestinians throughout the Gaza Strip
through a bloody and ongoing aerial bombardment.
On October 7, 2023, following a Palestinian Resistance
operation in southern Israel, the Israeli military launched a genocidal war
against the Palestinians, killing over 53,000, wounding more than 122,000, with
over 14,000 still missing.
Despite habitual condemnation by many countries around
the world of the Israeli genocide, little has been done to hold Israel
accountable.
Israel is currently under investigation for the crime
of genocide by the International Court of Justice, while accused war criminals
— including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — are now officially wanted by
the International Criminal Court.
The Israeli genocide has been largely defended,
supported, and financed by Washington and a few other Western powers.
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