The UN agency for children has condemned the Israeli killing of 50 Palestinian children in Gaza in a matter of 48 hours calling that another ‘dark chapter’ in the regime’s ‘terrible’ war against the besieged territory.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children are among the most vulnerable threatened by starvation as the Israeli regime continues with relentless strikes as it blocks entry of humanitarian necessities into the besieged strip.
Palestinian authorities announced that nearly 17,000 Palestinian children have been killed and almost 26,000 others have been orphaned since the regime unleashed its genocidal war on October 7, 2023.
The Commissioner of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) philippe Lazzarini has denounced the Israeli regime for killing 150 Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank since October 7 attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip.
The World Health Organization has warned that 15,000 children in the besieged Gaza Strip are suffering malnutrition with thousands of them at risk of severe malnutrition.
The UN agency for children has reported that some 190,000 Palestinian children have lost their Palestinians since the beginning of the Israeli onslaughts on the besieged Gaza Strip.
Medical sources said that an Israeli air raid targeted a tent for displaced people near Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) headquarters west of Khan Yunis, resulting in the killing of a woman and three children.
The UN agency for children has warned that the ongoing Israeli strikes on Gaza have inflicted mental and emotional damage on Palestinian children in Gaza depriving them of any chance of a normal childhood.
The UN agency for Palestinian children has reported that 625,000 Palestinian children have lost one year of school in Gaza. The number also includes 300,000 students supported by the UN agency.
The UN office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Palestinians territories reported that the number of Palestinian children who have been killed by Israeli gunfire has tripled since the Israeli regime launched its genocidal war against the besieged strip.
Children in Gaza hold the pictures of Iranian female rower, Zeinab Norouzi, who held a flag of Palestine during 2024 Paris Olympics to show her support for the Palestinians in the besieged Gaza strip.
An increasing number of Palestinian children are plagued as skin diseases run rampant across the besieged Gaza Strip. Lack of sanitation, clean water and medical aids during nearly ten months of Israeli relentless strikes and total blockade of the strip have intensified the living condition for more than two million Palestinians.
“Skin infections are spreading among displaced people due to the lack of cleanliness, poor ventilation and the lack of proper treatment,” said Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip. He explained that infected children suffer from high fever, constant crying and refusal to breastfeed or eat.
Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has banned nearly 150 sick Palestinian children to leave the besieged strip for medical treatment in the United Arab Emirates, an Israeli media has reported.