James Elder, who speaks for the United Nations children’s agency Unicef, is worried about how the Israeli military action in southern Gaza is affecting children.
“A strong message from the top has been sent that we must not let the terrible things that happened in the north happen in the south. ” “Yes, that is definitely true,” Elder said.
He guessed that bombs drop “every 10 minutes”.
The people in southern Gaza are in danger and feeling very tired because they have been forced to leave their homes multiple times due to bombing. They have nowhere else to go and are trying to stay strong for their children.
“When I see so many children being brought in on stretchers with terrible war injuries and their parents screaming, it is clear that hospitals and shelters are not safe for them,” he said.
“I don’t feel safe, and no one else feels safe. ” Doctors in Gaza have a word for a certain type of war victim, according to the BBC.
Dr Tanya Haj-Hassan, who works with the charity Doctors Without Borders, says there’s an acronym unique to the Gaza Strip called WCNSF. It stands for “wounded child, no surviving family” and is used often.
Ahmed Shabat is a child who was hurt and crying when he got to the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza. He was described with an acronym. A three-year-old boy was okay after an air attack on his home in Beit Hanoun, in the middle of November. But his dad, mom and big brother were all killed.
He was very lucky and only had a few small injuries. Later it was found out that his little brother Omar, who is two years old, also lived through the attack. Their uncle Ibrahim Abu Amsha chose to take care of the two children who had lost their parents, in addition to his own family.
He first brought them to Sheikh Radwan city, but then he said they left because Ahmed got hurt by pieces of glass from a bomb.
They later went to Nuseirat camp and stayed in a school that is part of the UN. However, even in their new place, they were hit once more, and Ahmed had really bad things happen to him.
Abu Amsha said, “I left the school and saw Ahmed in front of me, lying on the ground without his legs. ” “He was moving on the ground towards me, with his arms open, asking for help. ”
One of Ahmed’s family members who was with him during the explosion, died.
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3-year-old Gazan child looses legs due to ongoing Israeli-Hamas war
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Kidnapped Israeli children billboards make it to Accra
An X (formerly Twitter) user has shared a picture of a billboard with images of about 20 Israeli children who are reported to have gone missing as the Israeli-Hamas war wages on.
The missing children in the Israeli-Hamas war are a tragic consequence of the conflict that erupted on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel, killing and abducting hundreds of civilians.
Among the 242 hostages, 37 are children aged 18 or under, according to the Hostage and Missing Families Forum, a group set up to demand the return of those kidnapped on October 7.
Adopting several means of urging the release of their children, such as posting their photos and names on social media platforms and using hashtags like #BringBackOurChildren, #FreeTheHostages, and #StopHamasTerror, one of these billboards displaying images of the alleged abducted children has been spotted in a part of Accra and this has garnered several reactions where netizens have attacked Ghana as “hypocritical”.