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The Regional Director for West Asia and North Africa of UN’s International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) says the Israeli regime is directly responsible for the death or injury of more than 50,000 children in Gaza either through direct military assault or through causing hunger and disease.
Edouard Beigbeder on Wednesday condemned the toll the Gaza war has had on the Palestinian children of the enclave and how indifferent the Israeli regime has been toward child casualties.
“Since the end of the ceasefire on March 18, 1,309 children have been killed and 3,738 injured. In total, more than 50,000 children have reportedly been killed or injured since October 2023. How many more dead girls and boys will it take?” he said.
“What level of horror must be live-streamed 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?” he said.
Beigbeder mentioned the case of the Palestinian doctor Alaa al-Najjar, a physician at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, who on Friday lost nine of her 10 children during an Israeli airstrike on their home and the horrifying death of at least 31 people on Monday, including 18 children, during 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,” he added...
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