Reported by Pakistan Today News
GAZA: The head of the UN agency supporting Palestinian refugees claimed Tuesday that ten children per day are forfeiting one or both of their legs in the war in Gaza.
“We have every day 10 children who are losing one leg or two legs on average,” UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini informed reporters in Geneva.
Mentioning figures from the UN children’s agency UNICEF, he expressed that the number “does not even include the arms and the hands, and we have many more” of these.
“Ten per day, that means around 2,000 children after the more than 260 days of this brutal war,” Lazzarini articulated.
He said the trauma of losing something often takes place “in quite horrible conditions, and sometimes without anaesthesia”.
Children in Gaza today are expending a “high price”, Lazzarini communicated.
He indicated to results publicised by Save the Children on Monday that up to 21,000 children are assessed to be neglected in the haze of the war in Gaza.
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At least 17,000 children are considered to be unsupported and isolated. At the same time, around 4,000 are likely ignoring under the residue, and an unknown number are considered to be in abundance graves, the report displayed.
Those numbers are in addition to the thousands of children who gather among the at least 37,658 people that the Gaza health ministry states have been killed in Israel’s retaliatory offensive in Gaza following Hamas’s October 7 attack on southern Israel.
That invasion, which flared the war, consequences in the deaths of 1,195 people, mostly civilians, as per an AFP tally founded on Israeli official figures.
Palestinian militants also grabbed 251 people prisoners in the invasion, 116 of whom were caught in the Gaza Strip, as reported by Israel. The army claims 42 of those are finished.
UNRWA corresponds closely to all help to Gaza, but Lazzarini cautioned that the agency was encountering persistent aggression and serious funding anguish.
The agency, which has been extremely underfunded for years, has been dropped into trouble since January, when Israel collared a dozen of its 13,000 Gaza workers with involvement in Hamas’s October 7 attack.
Lazzarini claimed, “A separate independent investigation by the UN’s internal oversight body is ongoing, with probes into 14 UNRWA employees underway.”
The indictments stimulated different governments to discontinue funding to UNRWA.
Many—though not the highest supporters, the United States or Britain—have continued expenditures, but Lazzarini articulated that “funding woes persisted.”
“We have cash until the end of August,” he articulated on Tuesday, counting that the agent still had “a shortfall of about $140 million… to bridge the end of the year”.
