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The clinics in Gaza “are almost silent” because “children no longer have the strength to speak or even cry in agony.” The complaint is made by Save The Children, with the UN Security Council.
Save the Children presented, on Wednesday, a dark painting of childhood in the Gazanamely in the city of Gaza, who lives a scenario of fome declared by the UN.
According to the director of this non-governmental organization (NGO), the children are being systematically killed to hungerin Gaza, due to “a deliberate policy,” where hunger is being used “as a method of war in its blacks.”
In hospitals, he described Inger Ashing“Children lie there, emanated, literally define it. They are tiny bodies overcome by hunger and disease. (…) As thousands and thousands of truck trucks loaded with vital products they await blocked a few kilometers away.”
Gaza’s clinics are silent. “Children no longer have the strength to cry”.
As an example, the executive director read a text written by a child from Gaza: “I would like to be in heaven, where my mother is, where there is love, there is food and there is water.”
Gaza children “do not need the so-called creative solutions, nor do they need air launches that do not almost deliver help, nor do they need militarized and inhuman distribution systems,” said Inger Ashing, in reference to the United States and Israel Humanitarian Foundation, whose distribution points became open-air traps, where hundreds of people died during chaotic distributions.
“O Israeli government could end this hunger tonightif you wished it, and then end your deliberate obstruction and let humanitarian workers do their work. Instead, there are reports of climbing Israelite military activity in the city of Gaza, more attacks on hospitals, more murder, ”he lamented.
“What the children of Gaza need is for the states to work,” he said, heading to the Security Council, the highest world agency for peace and security.
Save The Children leader also described the daily lives of Palestinian children in the West Bank, facing “demolitions of houses, travel, harassment and intimidation by Israeli forces or colonists,” or even arrests, reinforcing that they are “the only ones in the world systematically processed in military courts that do not meet international juvenile justice standards”.
It is an “abusive and inhumanwhere children constantly report physical, emotional and sexual abuse, humiliation and hunger“He stressed.
“For almost two years, the international community has failed to protect Palestinian children. (…) Inaction is a choice. Indecision is complicity. The children have already reached their limit. Where is yours?“He said, addressing international representatives present at the Security Council.
