UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said: “We have not seen this rate of child mortality in almost any other conflict in the world.”
More than five months after beginning of the war between Israel and the group Hamas, the agency of the UN for children reported that since the conflict began, 13,000 children in Gaza due to the Israeli offensive. In addition, they warned that many of those who remain in the territory suffer malnutrition severe and do not have “not even energy to cry.”
“Thousands more have been injured or We can’t even determine where they are. They may be trapped under debris. We have not seen that infant mortality rate in almost any other conflict in the world“said the executive director of UNICEF, Catherine Russell, on CBS News’ “Face the Nation.”
“I have been in wards of children suffering from severe anemic malnutrition, the whole ward is absolutely silent because children, babies don’t even have the energy to cry“.
As for a possible way out of this worrying panorama, Russel argued that there is “major bureaucratic challenges” for moving trucks to Gaza with aid and assistance.
One in three children under 2 years of age in northern Gaza suffers from acute malnutrition and famine is looming, the main UN agency operating in Gaza declared on Saturday.
Humanitarian crisis in Gaza: criticism against Israel grows
The humanitarian situation in Gaza is one of the main concerns at the international level that led to strong criticism against Israel due to the number of fatalities left by the war. In addition to the famine in Gaza Strip and accusations of blocking aid to the enclave.
Since the beginning of the conflict, 2.3 million people, almost the entire population of this territory, were forced to move. At the same time, a severe starvation crisis occurred that destroyed a large part of the enclave and ended the lives of 31,000 people, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
In any case, Israel denies the accusations of genocide and assures that acts in self-defense after the attack by the Hamas group on October 7where around 1,200 people died and 240 hostages were taken.
Source: Ambito
