A child is killed every 10 minutes in Gaza, Save the Children says. Families are mourning not just their own losses, but what feels like the loss of an entire generation.
Injured children arrive at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Oct. 24. KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — Youssef Sharaf has been trying for more than a week to dig out the bodies of his four children, buried under his destroyed home in Gaza City.
His three daughters — Malak, 11, Yasmin, 6, and Nour, 3 — and his only son, 10-year-old Malik, were lost beneath the rubble.About 30 of his relatives were staying with them, Sharaf said, hoping to find safety in numbers, and in each other. Thirteen of his nieces and nephews were killed — among them Lana, 16, Hala, 11, Jana, 9, Juri, 6, Tuleen, 4, Karim, 2, and 1-year-old Obeida.“So I carried them in my hands, my brother, his wife, and his son, and buried them together,” he said.
“Gaza has become a graveyard for children,” UNICEF spokesperson James Elder said at a news briefing Tuesday. “It’s a living hell for everyone else.” When wounded children are rushed to hospitals, there is less and less that doctors can do to save their lives, said Ahmed al-Farra, head of the pediatric department at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza.“The destructive power of the missiles is very strong,” he said of Israeli munitions. Many children arrive from attack sites with gruesome injuries — severed body parts, shrapnel wounds, severe burns and internal bleeding from the force of the blasts, he said.
“I’ve worked here for more than 25 years and I’ve seen all the wars, but this war is different,” said Hussam Abu Safiya, a doctor at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza.“We are talking about hundreds of kids who need medical care or they will die in the street,” Abu Safiya said. On Oct. 18, a strike on a neighbor’s house collapsed part of their temporary home. Misk was killed, on the day she turned 2 months old. Shahad lost her sister and cousin as well.
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