June 17 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The regional director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) for the Middle East and North Africa, Adele Jodr, has warned that the conflict in the Gaza Strip has become a “war against children” and has denounced that the area is already a “children’s cemetery.”
“Probably all children will be traumatized because they have gone through something that no child should have to go through,” Jodr highlighted this Monday during an event held in Tokyo and reported by Japanese public television NHK.
Jodr has highlighted that “every time there is an attack there are children killed because Gaza has a very young population concentrated in a very small area.”
The head of UNICEF recalled that there are 37,000 children suffering from severe malnutrition and that 17,000 have been orphaned, so they run the risk of suffering exploitation and abuse.
In addition, there are many who have suffered serious injuries and even loss of a limb, circumstances that can be fatal given the critical situation of the Gazan health system. “If they had been in a normal place, where there was a normal hospital, a hospital equipped with the necessary medical supplies and material, they could have been saved,” she argued.
For all these reasons, the Lebanese woman has asked for an immediate ceasefire and the involvement of the international community so that the necessary help reaches the children of Gaza who need it.
The latest balance sheet by the authorities of the Gaza Strip, controlled by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), raises the number of Palestinian deaths to 37,347, including more than 15,700 children, since the beginning of the military offensive launched more than eight months ago. by Israel against the Gaza Strip, initiated after the attacks carried out on October 7 by the Islamist group and other Palestinian factions.
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