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At a time when their peers across the Muslim world are celebrating Eid El-Adha and enjoying all the rights, the children of Gaza are living under bombs and welcoming this celebration under the sign of lack and suffering.
Killed, injured, displaced, targeted in schools and hospitals and denied all humanitarian aid, these innocent people are subjected to the most horrible violations on a daily basis.
Many Gazans children celebrated this Eid without their parents or their brothers and sisters, because they were killed in the massacres. Innocent people have lived in the worst conditions, they deserve for all this to stop, and to live like other children in the world, wearing beautiful clothes, receiving gifts, playing in amusement parks…
These children pay a heavy price and are the first victims in Israeli bombings on Gaza. Their daily life has been turned into horror since October 7.
The latest reports from Unicef show that 37,266 people were killed, including more than 14,100 children and 9,000 women. More than 85,000 people were reported injured, including 12,320 children. Thousands more are missing and likely under the rubble. According to our estimates, a child is injured or killed every ten minutes.
Contacted by the Young Independent, the Ambassador of the State of Palestine in Algiers, Faïz Abou Aïta affirmed that the children of Gaza are targeted daily by the Zionist war machine. Deeply concerned about the tragedy experienced by these children, indicated that children in Gaza need vital assistance
Mr. Abou Aïta regretted the fact that hundreds of countries celebrated International Children’s Day at the beginning of June, without worrying about the fate of the children of Palestine who are targeted by the Zionist war machine.
The Ambassador stressed that the celebration of this day is an opportunity to raise a cry of distress and awaken universal conscience, while the children of Gaza are facing a real genocide. He launched an appeal to public opinion to act to put an end to Israeli violence and to help these children who, if they do not die from bombing, are dying from hunger and thirst.
“Today, the children of Gaza lack the basic necessities of life amid the terror and fear of the scenes of death and destruction that surround them,” he said with alarm, adding that these children live in the most vulnerable conditions, and many of them have lost their families, they suffer from hunger and thirst, and lack the basic necessities of life amid the terror and fear of death scenes and destruction that surrounds them.
As for education, he laments, it has become an unattainable dream, lost with the destruction of schools and universities, and their access to health care has become impossible. “Our children are deprived of their fundamental rights,” he lamented.
“The majority of children found themselves forced to work to help their families, others suffered serious injuries and we were unable to transfer them abroad for health care,” a- he argued.
In fact, the children of Palestine are suffering a flagrant violation of all the fundamental rights set out in the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child, including the right to life, growth and development, the right to education, health and care, and the right to protection against all forms of abuse and exploitation.
In its latest report, Unicef already sounded the alarm, deploring the fact that “almost all children in Gaza have been exposed to deeply distressing events and traumas”. According to the same organization, 17,000 children in the region lost or were separated from their families during the war, leaving almost all of them in urgent need of psychological support.