At least 67 Palestinian children killed in Gaza since ‘ceasefire’ began: UN

UNICEF says babe miss among respective children killed this week arsenic Israel carried retired a question of bombings contempt truce.

At slightest 67 Palestinian children person been killed successful the Gaza Strip since a United States-brokered ceasefire statement came into effect past month, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says.

Speaking during a quality league successful Geneva connected Friday, UNICEF spokesperson Ricardo Pires said the decease toll includes a babe miss who was killed successful an Israeli aerial onslaught connected a location successful confederate Gaza’s Khan Younis connected Thursday.

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It besides includes 7 different children killed a time earlier, arsenic Israel carried retired a question of attacks across the enclave.

“This is during an agreed ceasefire. The signifier is staggering,” Pires told reporters of the decease toll since October 11, the archetypal afloat time of the truce betwixt Israel and Hamas.

“As we person repeated galore times, these are not statistics: Each was a kid with a family, a dream, a beingness – abruptly chopped abbreviated by continued violence.”

Palestinian children person borne the brunt of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, with UNICEF estimating past period that 64,000 children person been killed and injured successful Israeli attacks since the warfare began successful October 2023.

Save the Children reported this week that, successful 2024, an mean of 475 Palestinian children “suffered lifelong disabilities” each period arsenic a effect of the war, including traumatic encephalon injuries and burns.

Gaza has besides go “home to the largest cohort of kid amputees successful modern history”, the humanitarian radical said.

Meanwhile, Israel has been accused of utilizing starvation arsenic a limb of war, plunging the territory into a humanitarian situation that led to respective hunger-related deaths among children, who are particularly susceptible erstwhile nutrient supplies tally out.

‘People screaming everywhere’

This week, the Israeli subject carried retired a bid of aerial strikes crossed Gaza successful effect to what it said was an incidental that saw its troops fired upon successful Khan Younis successful the southbound of the Strip.

Hamas rejected Israel’s claim, saying the latest strikes – which killed astatine slightest 32 Palestinians – were “a unsafe escalation” that demonstrates that the Israeli authorities wants “to resume the genocide” successful Gaza.

Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF, said connected Friday that its teams successful Gaza had treated respective Palestinian women and children “with unfastened fractures and gunshot wounds to their limbs and head” amid the question of Israeli attacks.

Zaher, an MSF caregiver moving astatine a mobile session successful Gaza City, said they treated a pistillate with a limb wounded and a nine-year-old miss with a facial coiled caused by Israeli quadcopter gunfire.

Mohammed Malaka, a diligent astatine al-Shifa Hospital, besides successful Gaza City, said helium heard the sounds of 2 incoming missiles earlier helium mislaid consciousness.

“I opened my eyes and saw my begetter connected the ground, and I saw my 3 brothers connected the ground, covered successful humor and particulate was everywhere,” helium told MSF.

“I could perceive radical screaming everyplace … the tents had go ashes, and radical were lying connected the crushed everywhere.”

In summation to the Israeli attacks, Palestinians crossed Gaza proceed to conflict amid Israel’s continued restrictions connected deliveries of humanitarian aid, including tents needed to shield displaced families during the colder wintertime months.

UNICEF’s Pires said galore children are “sleeping successful the open” and “trembling successful fearfulness portion surviving successful flooded, makeshift shelters”.

“The world imposed connected Gaza’s children remains brutally simple: There is nary harmless spot for them and the satellite cannot proceed to normalise their suffering,” helium said, urging much assistance to beryllium allowed into the territory.

“For hundreds of thousands of children living successful tents implicit the rubble of their erstwhile homes, the caller [winter] play is simply a menace multiplier. Children are shivering done the nighttime with nary heating, nary insulation, and excessively fewer blankets.”