Save the Children International announced today, Tuesday, the death of more than two thousand children in the Gaza Strip as a result of the ongoing Israeli bombing of the Strip since October 7, according to what the organization said in a statement on its website.
The authority said, "Continuous air strikes have turned thousands of buildings in the Gaza Strip into piles of rubble from which smoke rises."
For his part, Director of the Authority, Jason Lee, stressed “the necessity of an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.”
He called on all parties to "take immediate steps to protect the lives of children," noting that "the international community must support these efforts, and the only way to protect the lives of children is to stop the violence."
The government media office in Gaza announced yesterday, Monday, that the number of martyrs reached 5,087, and the number of wounded was 15,273 citizens, since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on October 7.
The media office explained that the number of child martyrs reached 2,055 children, while the number of women and girls reached 1,119, in addition to 217 elderly people. These numbers add to the presence of more than 1,500 missing persons, including 830 children.
At dawn on Tuesday, the Director-General of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Munir Al-Bursh, confirmed that “until this moment, not a single piece of the aid that is being talked about entering the Gaza Strip has arrived.”
Al-Barsh explained that the aid enters through the Rafah crossing and is transported to the Kafr Abu Salem crossing, is inspected by the Israeli occupation forces, and then returns to Rafah before being distributed. More than 29 medical centers went out of service, as well as many hospitals.
The spokesman for the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, Ashraf Al-Qudra, said, “The Israeli occupation committed 23 massacres in the past hours, claiming the lives of 436 martyrs, including 182 children,” noting that the majority of the martyrs were from the south of the Strip, adding that “medical teams are facing... “Severe burn injuries and skin melting that you have never seen before on the bodies of the wounded, and they are difficult to deal with.”
Two days ago, the director of an UNRWA shelter center, Muhammad Shweidah, explained that the northern Gaza Strip and Gaza City were excluded from the aid that would enter the Gaza Strip, explaining that UNRWA abandoned the northern and Gaza City areas and withdrew to the south.
The occupation deliberately targets gatherings of citizens, destroys homes above the heads of their residents, and targets churches and mosques, where 32 mosques were completely damaged and 3 churches were severely damaged.
