Foreign editorial team October 14, 2023
A real massacre of children is taking place in Gaza. More than 700 people have been killed and another 2,450 injured by Israeli bombings in the Gaza Strip since the conflict began last Saturday. Unicef spokeswoman Sara Al Hattab reported this in an interview with CNN, citing health sources and local media. In total, at least 2,215 Palestinians have been killed and 8,714 injured, and the conflict is only in its early stages, with the number of casualties rising by the hour.
“Killing children must stop. The images and stories are clear: children with terrible burns, mortar wounds, amputated limbs. Hospitals are full and unable to treat them,” added another spokesman, James Elder, who also called for the release of the Israeli children held hostage in Gaza, arguing that they should be “safe and immediately with them must be reunited with their families and loved ones.”
“The attack on Gaza will be disproportionate and unprecedented”
The figures are an update to yesterday’s statement from Unicef, which said that “hundreds and hundreds of children have been killed and injured”. “The situation is catastrophic, with incessant bombings and a massive increase in the displacement of children and families. There are no safe places,” declared yesterday the executive director of the United Nations agency, Catherine Russell. “An immediate ceasefire and humanitarian access are the top priority,” recalling that “there are rules of war” and calling for “an immediate humanitarian pause, to ensure safe and unhindered access to children in need, regardless of who they are or where they are.” others.”
But there is no safe place left in the Gaza Strip, not even the shelters run by UNRWA, the United Nations agency for the relief and employment of Palestinian refugees in the Middle East. “Wars have rules.” Civilians, hospitals, schools, clinics and the United Nations headquarters must not be targets,” the organization said, denouncing that even their shelters were “no longer safe,” which was “unprecedented.”
Live updates from the conflict
And yesterday a convoy of civilian vehicles heading south of Gaza was also apparently bombed, a massacre that was first reported on social media and then confirmed by the BBC, which confirmed that the events took place in the Salah-al- Din Street, one of the two streets that occurred during the evacuation from northern Gaza to the south. The road was busy as Gazans living in the north moved south following Israel’s warnings against a rapid evacuation of an area home to 1.1 million people. In a video circulating online, at least 12 mutilated bodies can be seen, mostly women and children, some of whom appear to be between two and five years old.
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