The United Nations designated the Gaza Strip, the place no less than 5,000 kids had been confirmed killed in incessant Israeli assaults in lower than two months, the “most dangerous place in the world to be a child,” additionally including that the “violence perpetrated on children” by Israel has been “disproportionate” and “indiscriminate.”
“More than 5,300 Palestinian children have been reportedly killed in just 46 days … or over 115 a day, every day, for weeks and weeks. Based on these figures, children account for 40% of the deaths in Gaza. This is unprecedented,” U.N. International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) Executive Director Catherine Russell stated on the U.N. Security Council briefing on the safety of youngsters in Gaza.
“In other words, the Gaza Strip is the most dangerous place in the world to be a child,” she stated.
Russell stated Gaza’s kids are at “extreme risk” from catastrophic residing situations along with bombs, rockets and gunfire.
“The effects of the violence perpetrated on children have been catastrophic, indiscriminate, and disproportionate,” she stated, stressing that humanitarian pauses are “simply not enough.”
“UNICEF is calling for an urgent humanitarian cease-fire to immediately put a stop to this carnage.”
“We are concerned that further military escalation in the south of Gaza would exponentially worsen the humanitarian situation there … causing additional displacement … and squeezing the civilian population into an even smaller area. Attacks on the South must be avoided,” she added, referring to Israel’s acknowledged plans to take the invasion there.
Israel has launched relentless air and floor assaults on the Gaza Strip following a cross-border assault by the Palestinian resistance group Hamas on Oct. 7.
Authorities in Gaza stated Tuesday that the loss of life toll from the continuing Israeli assaults on the besieged enclave since then has risen previous 14,100 folks, together with over 5,800 kids and three,900 girls. The Israeli loss of life toll, in the meantime, is round 1,200, in line with official figures.
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