Syrian Arab News Agency S A N A
Occupied Jerusalem, SANA- The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics announced that the Israeli occupation forces kill about 4 children every hour in the stricken Gaza Strip, and that 43,349 children are now living without their parents or one of them as a result of the genocidal war continuing for the 181st day.
The ongoing aggression against Gaza led to the death of more than 14,350 children, representing about 44 percent of the total number of martyrs in the Strip, and women and children accounted for 70 percent of the missing, numbering about 7,000 Palestinians, the Central Bureau said in a statement today on the occasion of the Palestinian children’s day, quoted by WAFA agency.
In West Bank, the Central Bureau indicated that 455 Palestinians have been martyred since the beginning of the aggression on the seventh of last October, including 117 children, and the number of injured children reached 724 out of 4,700 wounded since the beginning of the aggression, pointed to the displacement of 1,620 Palestinians, including 710 children throughout the West Bank.
The occupation forces also arrested 500 children after the aggression on the Strip, including 318 children from Jerusalem alone, and 204 children are still in detention, including 202 from the West Bank, one from Gaza and one from the territories occupied in 1948.
As for the war of starvation committed by the occupation against the people of the Gaza Strip, the central Bureau reported that 28 children were martyred due to malnutrition and dehydration in the Strip hospitals, while 95% of the people in Gaza are facing high levels of acute food insecurity, including about 1.1 million Palestinians in Gaza strip are facing catastrophic levels.
About newborn babies in Gaza Strip, the bureau warned of the catastrophic conditions they are suffering from, as about 20 thousand children were born under the aggression, as a result of pregnant women suffering from malnutrition and dehydration and facing severe food poverty, so many of their children are born underweight and suffer serious health problems.
Regarding the psychological effects of aggression, the Central Bureau of Statistics confirmed that there are more than 816 thousand children in need of psychological assistance from the effects of aggression, which left deep effects on them, including fear, anxiety, depression and psychological trauma.
Fedaa al-Rahai
