These young deaths are “the last of the war against children and childhood in Gaza,” Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN refugee agency, said on Wednesday in a tweet.
The toll also includes some 40,000 boys and girls reported killed or injured due to bombing and air strike, at least 17,000 unaccompanied and separate children, and a million deeply traumatized young people who do not receive education.
“Children are children,” he said.
“”No one should be silent in the death of children, or is brutally deprived of a future, wherever these children areincluding in Gaza. »»
A dark meeting
Thousands of sick children in Gaza need urgent medical evacuation, according to the OCHA United Nations Coordination Office.
Olga Cherevko, agency spokesperson, recalled the moment when she recognized a young girl requiring treatment in a Gaza hospital after an interval of one year, suffering once more malnutrition.
“I remembered his long eyelashes,” said the veteran humanitarian PK Press ClubDescribing Janah, seven, whom she met at the hospital adapted to the patients of Gaza City on Tuesday.
“The first time I met her was at IMC Field hospital in southern Gaza in April 2024. At the time, she was seriously malnocked and had a treatment. And she gradually became better and was finally released and returned home.”
Janah, seven, is treated at the hospital adapted to the patients of Gaza City.
Evacuation saves lives
However, Janah was now back to the hospital “because malnutrition has worsened and The condition that it has also is not properly diagnosed and cannot be properly diagnosed. “”
The girl is on a list of people to evacuate medically for treatment outside Gaza. The most recent evacuations took place last week when the World Health Organization (WHO) supported the transfer of 15 seriously sick children in Jordan, but more than 14,800 people are still waiting.
Ms. Cherevko stressed the importance of ensuring that evacuations continue to save as many lives as possible.
More help required
She also pointed out that for children and adults suffering from pre -existing conditions, their situation gets worse with malnutrition.
“It would not be so if they had good nutrition, because these conditions existed before the famine crisis and that they do not become as sick as they are now,” she said.
“This is why it is imperative to make sure that we have appropriate conditions on the ground for adequate volumes of supplies to enter-everything, from food to medicine via nutrition in a shelter,” she continued.
“And these lines of life must be really activated so that we can provide this help to people in need.”
