On World Children’s Day, which coincides with Monday, the children of Gaza face death by Israeli and forbidden bombs, according to United Nations reports and official Palestinian statements for the 45th day, amid shameful international silence.
The Palestinian Ministry of Education confirmed that more than 5,500 children were killed in the war on Gaza, including 3,000 students, while more than 1,800 minors are still missing after being shot by the Israeli occupation army.
The Palestinian government confirmed that 80% of the 30,000 people exposed to danger in Gaza as a result of the fighting are women and children, calling on the international community to assume its responsibilities and protect the children of Gaza, take serious measures to stop mass killings and include Israel on the list of shame for violating children’s rights.
Prisoners’ institutions reported that 2,070 cases of arrest were documented in the West Bank and Jerusalem, including 145 children, in addition to exposing children to risks as a result of the occupation’s raids on their homes.
Human rights activists believe that International Children’s Day falls this year while one of the most horrific crimes is being committed, which is genocide against Palestinian children in Gaza, in addition to the crimes of deprivation of education, water, food, and medicine as a result of targeting hospitals and causing the death of premature babies.
In turn, Amnesty International called on the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to take immediate and concrete measures to accelerate the investigation into war crimes in the Gaza Strip, stressing that the Israeli forces once again showed chilling indifference to the catastrophic losses inflicted on civilians due to their continued and relentless bombing of the Gaza Strip.
The organization documented two illustrative cases in which Israeli raids killed 46 civilians, including 20 children, noting that the oldest victim in those raids was an 80-year-old woman, and the youngest victim was a 3-month-old child.
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