She is another small, innocent victim of the war in the Middle East among the thousands of children who have lost their lives: a Palestinian girl just four years old was “accidentally” shot dead by Israeli agents in a failed attack on a checkpoint near Jerusalem. A man driving a car tried to run over the police officers who opened fire, killing the little girl who was sitting in another vehicle
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Another drama as Israel continues to bomb southern Gaza after achieving its targets in the north: Exactly three months after the Hamas attack, planes passed between Khan Younis and Rafah last night, causing fatalities. Dozens of civilians were killed, including newborns and children: At least 113 Palestinians were killed and another 250 injured in the last 24 hours, Gaza's health ministry said. This brings the number of deaths since October 7th to 22,835.
Among them were two reporters: Hamza Wael Al-Dahdouh from Al Jazeera and Mustafa Thuria, who also worked for AFP, who were torn apart by a rocket while driving in the car near Rafah.
What makes the news even more dramatic is the fact that the first was the son of Wael Al-Dahdouh, an Al Jazeera journalist whose story went around the world: while filming a report on the Israeli attacks in a hospital, he learned he that a raid had wiped out much of his family. “An unimaginable tragedy,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken defined it from Doha, while 102 reporters have been killed in Gaza since the conflict began.
Ali Salem Abu Ajwa, nephew of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, who founded Hamas in Gaza in 1987 and was its spiritual leader until he was killed by Israel in 2004, also died under the bombs last night. According to some sources, he also worked as a journalist in Gaza.
Israel continues to strike as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives for a new trip to the region to find a solution for Gaza and prevent escalation with Lebanon, from which new rockets also arrived today. “The situation for men, women and children in Gaza remains dire. “Too many Palestinians have been killed, especially children,” Blinken wrote on X today during his Middle East mission. “Too many face incredibly difficult challenges when it comes to access to food, water, medicine and the basic necessities of life.” As Save the Children testifies with the announcement, ten children lose their legs every day (one thousand in three months) and often have to have them amputated without anesthesia.
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However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is under increasing political pressure at home and abroad, including from the United States, appears unwilling to deviate from his very hard line. And he also issued a warning to Hezbollah: “They should learn what Hamas has already learned in the last few months. No terrorist is immune,” he thundered after Nasrallah’s threats in recent days. Blinken also said in Doha that it was “imperative” that Israel do more to protect Palestinian civilians in Gaza, who “must be able to return home as soon as conditions permit.” A signal to the hawks in the Netanyahu government, who have been speculating for days about an exodus of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. A possibility that, however, even Israeli President Isaac Herzog himself ruled out in an interview with NBC: This is “absolutely not” Israel’s position, but “in a society where freedom of expression is the basis of our DNA, people can say what They want.” The ministers “talked about the voluntary abandonment of the Gaza Strip. I say openly, officially and unequivocally that this is not the Israeli position,” he affirmed.
Save the Children, “10 children a day are amputated in Gaza”
Since October 7, more than a thousand children in the Gaza Strip have lost one or both legs through amputations, often without anesthesia. That's more than ten children a day who can no longer walk, jump rope, play soccer or ride a bike. Victims of the endless horror of a conflict that has been affecting the little ones mercilessly for three months. The frightening data comes from Save The Children, which in a note cites the figures published by Unicef. Many of these amputations, the NGO said, were carried out without anesthesia due to the paralysis of Gaza's health system and severe shortages of doctors and nurses, as well as anesthetics and antibiotics. And because there is no electricity, the wounded in the north of the enclave are being treated by the dim light of torches, say Palestinian Red Crescent (Prcs) volunteers working in Jabalia. “I have seen doctors and nurses completely overwhelmed when children arrive with blast wounds. “The impact of seeing little ones in so much pain and not having the equipment and medication to treat them or relieve the pain is too great for even the most experienced professionals,” says Jason Lee, Director of Save the Children in the occupied Palestinian territories. “Even in a war zone, the sight and voice of a child mutilated by bombs can neither be accepted nor understood.” “The suffering of the children in this conflict is unimaginable and all the more so because it is useless and completely avoidable,” accuses the head of the organization . “This suffering, killing and maiming of children are considered serious violations and those responsible must be held accountable. If the international community does not take action to fulfill its responsibilities under international humanitarian law and prevent the most serious crimes, history will judge us.” “Everything,” the organization warns: “Only a final ceasefire will solve all this “put an end to it” and allow the arrival of urgently needed humanitarian aid,” concludes the ‘Ong.
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