GAZA, (PIC)
“We wish to live as the rest of the children of the world, while remaining steadfast on our own land,” this was the message of a Gazan child to the world on the new year 2024.
With a deep feeling of pain and grief, but filled with strength and determination, a Gazan child sent this message to the entire world and specifically to international human rights organizations which have been calling, for centuries, for protecting the rights of children and women in the Arab and Muslim countries, but when it came to the children of Gaza who have been victims of the Israeli crimes, they turned blind.
The boy who uttered those words looked like a child but spoke like an old wise man due to what he has been through over the past few months in light of the ongoing Israeli brutal aggression, horror, bloody crimes, and massacres carried out against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.
With his determination and strong words, pointing to a steadfast revolutionary soul, the child wished an end to the war and reaching a permanent ceasefire, simply saying, “We wish an end to the war. We want to feel joy.”
“They said Gaza has been devastated, and I say it will be reconstructed with our bare hands”, a Gazan young girl, said in a poem she wrote on Gaza on the new year occasion.
Another young girl, Zahwa, sent a message to the world expressing how much she is missing her father who was killed in Israeli airstrikes and how much she is missing getting his hugs, saying, “I miss hugging my father. They have taken him away from me. This war has taken so many beautiful things.”
“All of the children around the world go to schools and get education. Why don’t we go to schools? How would we grow up without education? We should go to school to learn and grow up and make achievements,” she added.
The children of Gaza welcomed the new year with more massacres carried out by the Israeli occupation forces. Many children were seen watching the funerals of their parents and families in deep grief and pain.
Over the past 87 days, the children of Gaza have been subjected to brutal aggression. Most of the martyrs who fell in the Israeli aggression on Gaza were children and women.
For almost three months of the aggression now, the children of Gaza have been denied the most basic human rights, such as food, medicine, clothing, and shelter.
The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics confirmed that 98% of the martyrs registered in 2023 in Palestine were from the Gaza Strip, including about 9,000 children and 6,450 women.
