The atrocities children in Gaza are exposed to are beyond any description, Unicef spokesperson Ricardo Pires said.
From the earliest days of the unprecedented hostilities in the Gaza Strip, Unicef has been forthright on the need for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, for the aid to flow, and for children to be protected.
“There are no appropriate words to describe the atrocities meted out to the starving children in Gaza,” Pires said calling for an end to the war.
“Children are the most affected by the disaster of famine and malnutrition in the Gaza Strip,” he was reported as saying by WAFA news agency.
“Gaza has become a graveyard for thousands of children. It is a living hell for everyone,” Unicef said in an earlier statement. It added that “more than 80 per cent of the children in Gaza suffer from severe malnutrition”.
The government media office in Gaza accused the Israeli army of targeting citizens waiting for aid delivery at the Kuwait Roundabout yesterday morning, killing and injuring dozens of people.
“The occupation army insists on targeting those searching for a living for their children to quench their hunger,” head of the government media office Salama Marouf said, slamming Israel for its persistent starvation policy against the Palestinians in north Gaza.
“This new crime has raised the number of deaths by the occupation while waiting for aid at the Kuwait Roundabout and Al Rashid Avenue to more than 400 martyrs and 1,300 wounded people so far,” he added.
“What the occupation army is doing by targeting citizens waiting for aid proves the falsity of all claims about attempts to alleviate the suffering in the northern Gaza Strip, and confirms that the starvation policy, genocide and ethnic cleansing is the core of the occupation’s current plan,” he noted.
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