We need to see end to indiscriminate killing of children in Gaza: UNICEF
May 14, 2024
New York [USA], May 14: Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have been forced to flee Rafah in southern Gaza as the Israeli military attacks from ground and air. More Palestinians, many of them children, are being killed every day.
"As somebody who was on the ground and has spent a lot of time in hospitals in Gaza, including in Rafah, I saw the impact of this fighting on children's bodies and it is horrific," said UNICEF spokesperson Tess Ingram in Gaza in an interview with US broadcaster ABC.
"I saw a nine-year-old girl who was clinging to life on a hospital bed in Rafah with major blast wounds down one side of her body, and when I met her, she had been that way 16 days because the medical ability in Gaza to repair those wounds was non-existent." "We need to see an end to the fighting and the indiscriminate killing of civilians, especially children."
Meanwhile, the UN agency for the Palestinians UNRWA has said on X that "more than 150,000 pregnant women are facing terrible sanitary conditions and health hazards amid displacement and war" in Gaza.
It called for an immediate ceasefire.
"Habiba was born in a small tent. She's 2 weeks old and less than 2kg of weight," UNRWA said in a social media post.
"More than 150,000 pregnant women are facing terrible sanitary conditions and health hazards amid displacement and war. No child in the world should suffer like this. We need a #ceasefireNow"
Source: Qatar Tribune
