Impact of Israeli raids on Gaza’s children … Facts and numbers
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health published on Sunday, 12 Palestinian citizens were killed in Israeli raids on several areas in the Gaza Strip.
The number of children killed by Israel since the Al-Aqsa Intifada in 2000 when Mohammed Durra was killed, has reached 2230 children, according to official Palestinian data. Most of those were killed in the last 4 Israeli wars on the Gaza Strip. (Valium)
315 children were killed during the first Israeli war on Gaza in late 2008 and early 2009, while 43 children along with 15 women were killed in 2012. In 2014 and during the 51-day war on Gaza, 546 Palestinian children were killed by Israeli raids. In May 2021, when Israel attacked Gaza for 11 days, 72 children were killed.
Further, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that Israeli soldiers wounded some 2,700 children “in the context of demonstrations, clashes, searches and arrests in 2018 only”, and the International Movement for Defense of Children in Palestine reported that the Israeli forces have killed 2700 Palestinian children since 2000.
It was not limited to killing, but also injuring, arresting and detaining countless more, and imposing house arrest on children, adding to the unbearable and unimaginable psychological pressures with which they are burdened.
Even the Israeli media shed light on the killing of Palestinian children by the Israeli IDF, as Haaretz newspaper reported that 67 children lost their lives during the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip in 2021.
Gaza’s Children do not merely face the prospect of brutal death, but also live in dire conditions and constant danger which has been ongoing for many years, due to Israel’s inhumane blockade, which deprives them of their most basic rights as stipulated in UN charters and conventions.
Psychiatric experts have unanimously agreed that these wars have left untold scars in children and young people that are difficult to heal and the effects of these are many including sleep disturbance and involuntary urination, to mention just two.
Source AlAraby Source Haaretz Source Al Jazeera Source Youm7
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