GAZA — 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.
اضافة اعلان
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.
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.
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.
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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