Tag: 6 Months

Six months of this cruel nightmare

Palestinians at the site of a building destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, March 18, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

I pray that the war will end so that we can think about what comes next, and have the energy to contend with the new suffering that awaits us in getting used to life in a devastated, ruined Gaza.

Source: Six months of this cruel nightmare

Six months on, Gaza is a “betrayal of humanity” | – IMEMC News

 

  • Eight out of 10 schools in Gaza are damaged or destroyed, UNICEF says.
  • 625,000 students have no access to education, the UN says.
  • 1,000 children in Gaza have lost one or both of their legs, the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says.
  • More than 50,000 children are estimated to be acutely malnourished in Gaza, the UN says.
  • 30 percent of children under two years in northern Gaza are acutely malnourished, the World Food Programme says.
  • 31 children have died from starvation and hunger, the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says.
  • More than 200 Palestinian children are being held in Israeli prisons, the Palestinian prisoner rights group Addameer says.

Source: Six months on, Gaza is a “betrayal of humanity” | – IMEMC News