As of Monday, World Children’s Day, Israel’s six-week war on the Gaza Strip has killed at least 5,500 Palestinian children and threatens the lives of about a million more who are enduring the Israeli bombardment and raids of homes, schools, and hospitals.
“An additional 1,800 children are missing under the rubble, most of them presumed dead,” the outlet noted. “A further 9,000 children have been injured, many with life-changing consequences. Many of these children have lived through the trauma of multiple wars.”
Ramez al-Sury’s family was sheltering at the Saint Porphyrius Greek Orthodox Church compound in Gaza when it was hit in an Israeli airstrike on October 19. He told Amnesty International that “my heart died with my children that evening. All my children were killed: Majid, 11, Julie, 12, and Suhail, 14. I have nothing left. I should have died with my children.”
“The church was full of peaceful people, only peaceful people,” he added. “There is nowhere safe in Gaza during this war. Bombardments everywhere, day and night. Every day, more and more civilians are killed. We pray for peace, but our hearts are broken.”
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