WHO GIVES A SHIT? 7,685 Children Under the age of 5 Could Starve to Death in Gaza Because of Israel
Spokesman for UNICEF said last week: Words fail me to describe the horrors that are hitting the children here
Save the Children announced Saturday that there are at least 7,685 children under the age of 5 in Gaza who were so malnourished that they required “urgent medical treatment to avoid death,” The New York Times reported.
“I’ve seen children and families roaming the streets of what hasn’t been flattened in Gaza, with no food, nowhere to go and nothing to survive on,” Jason Lee, a Save the Children official in Gaza, said, according to The Times. “Even the internationally funded humanitarian aid response — Gaza’s last lifeline — has been choked by Israeli-imposed restrictions.”
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James Elder, a spokesman for UNICEF, the UN’s children’s agency, posted a video on social media on Friday to express the dire situation that children in Gaza now face.
“The ceasefire is over. We can already hear the bombing. I’m at a hospital. There was a hit about 50 meters from here. This is the biggest, still-functioning hospital in Gaza. It’s at 200 percent capacity. The health system here is overwhelmed,” he said.
“Words fail me to describe the horrors that are hitting the children here. I see children arriving en masse among the victims.” James Elder, a spokesman for UNICEF
He went on to say that the world cannot see more children “with the wounds of war, with the burns, with the shrapnel littering their body, with the broken bones. This is a war on children.”
Israel wasted little time to get back to the killing after the ceasefire. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to keep up the fight.
“We swore, and I swore, to eliminate Hamas. Nothing will stop us. We will continue this war until we achieve the three goals, to release all our abductees, to eliminate Hamas completely, and to ensure that Gaza will never again face such a threat,” he said.
More than 6,000 children have been killed in Israel’s onslaught. Human Rights Watch noted that five Palestinian newborns were left inside the Al-Nasr Medical Center in Gaza City to die after Israeli airstrikes knocked out power inside the hospital and cut off their oxygen supply. Their partially decomposed bodies were found when hospital workers were allowed back in.
Israeli airstrikes have hit schools, hospitals, and ambulances in Gaza, resulting in civilian casualties. At least 300 schools have been damaged and 183 teachers killed, HRW said.
In a video last Sunday, Elder said “Words fail me to describe the horrors that are hitting the children here. I see children arriving en masse among the victims.”
Giora Eiland, the former head of the Israeli National Security Council, spoke about how rampant disease could benefit the military campaign.
WSWS quoted her article:
“Who are the ‘poor’ women of Gaza? They are all the mothers, sisters or wives of Hamas murderers…
The international community warns us of a humanitarian disaster in Gaza and of severe epidemics. We must not shy away from this, as difficult as that may be. After all, severe epidemics in the south of the Gaza Strip will bring victory closer and reduce casualties among IDF soldiers.”
The BBC ran a headline: “Untreated Diseases Could Eventually Kill More People in Gaza Than Bombings”
The report said:
“Diarrhea and respiratory infections are widespread among children in overcrowded UN facilities where almost 1.1 million people are sheltering. Patients with chronic illnesses like cancer are also receiving no treatment.”
While most of the rest of the world has condemned Israel for committing genocide against the Palestinian people, the U.S. and the West have refrained from using that term and condemn all those who do.
Genocide is defined as: the deliberate killing of many people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.
And as we reported, Craig Mokhiber, the head of the UN’s human rights office in New York, said there has been a “wholesale slaughter of the Palestinian people, rooted in an ethno-nationalist settler-colonial ideology,” he said, and warned that “Once again we are seeing a genocide unfolding before our eyes and the organization, we serve appears powerless to stop it.”
The WSWS report indicated that Israel has been ruthlessly effective in its alleged effort to cripple Gazans with disease.
“Because people are so crowded, because they are in such poor condition, because they lack food and they lack water, and they are unable to wash themselves or drink clean water, we are seeing huge rises in infectious diseases, particularly in diarrheal diseases—diarrheal disease is going up exponentially. It’s increased 31 times more than you would expect in children under 5; also in adults: 104 times greater than you would expect.” Dysentery has increased 14 times, Margaret Harris, a spokesperson for the WHO, said, according to the report.
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