GAZA, (PIC)
“I wish Benjamin Netanyahu would burn in hell to see the punishment for burning children and their families. I wish for him and his generals and his tyrannical government in Israel that God takes them where they deserve and that they burn in hell.”
With these tearful words, Irish parliamentarian Thomas Gould expresses his intense pain and anger over the scenes of genocide and the holocaust that the Israeli army has been committing against the children, men, and women of Gaza for more than eight months, right under the eyes of an unjust world that remains a mere spectator.
He continues his speech, filled with sorrow for the children of Gaza, saying, “When you look at the pictures and videos coming from there (Gaza), you hear the screams of the people. They scream as the Israeli government burns men, women, and children alive. They have burned them alive.”
Gould added, “The world stands idly by while 15,000 children, 35,000 men, women, and children are slaughtered. It is unbelievable, the genocide that is happening. A child without a head? I wish Benjamin Netanyahu would burn in hell to see the punishment for burning children and their families. I wish for him and his generals and his tyrannical government in Israel that God takes them where they deserve and that they burn in hell.”
He emphasized that “what is happening now is not only apartheid, not only an atrocity and a war crime, it is horrific. But today, the Irish people are speaking out: We recognize Palestine, and we acknowledge that they are human beings, just like each one of us. Shame on Israel, shame on what it has done, and we will never forget it.”
Every day, the cameras of journalists document the scenes of crime, broadcasting to the whole world the extent of the criminality practiced by the Israeli occupation army against the children of Gaza, who have become the presumed martyrs of the aggression, either by bombing, disease, or hunger, which gnaws at their bodies day by day after the closures of the crossings and the prevention of humanitarian aid.
The Government Media Office (GMO) in Gaza documented in its latest statistics the martyrdom of 15,438 children in Gaza since the start of the aggression, with 32 children dying from starvation.
Everyone is complicit in starving Gaza’s children
Writer and political analyst Ali Saada believes that “everyone is complicit in starving Gaza’s children,” affirming at the same time that the famine besieging and striking Gaza’s children is not only about obtaining any food to satisfy their hunger.
Saada stressed that the famine is much more dangerous, with the absence of nutritional supplements, milk, the lack of certain types of food, and deprivation of vaccines, medicines, and family medical care and children’s specific foods, in addition to their need for advanced psychological care, concurrently with the horrors, crimes, and violations they have witnessed. He underlined that “without witnessing it ourselves, we wouldn’t have believed it”.
He cautioned that children under five are at risk of gradual death in Gaza as they suffer from severe malnutrition, affecting their bodies, making them susceptible to infectious diseases that threaten their lives, delay their growth, and endanger their survival.
He notes that the problem of Gaza’s children is worsening and needs an Arab, Islamic, and international effort to stop this systematic and premeditated crime, surpassing even the devil’s imagination, and to save the children in Gaza, numbering 335,000, living in extremely harsh conditions due to genocide, displacement, and other conditions of brutal aggression.
Saada pointed out that the Israeli occupation army has killed about 15,000 children during the genocide in Gaza, with tens of thousands injured, and more than 17,000 of them now live without one or both parents.
Urgent need for immediate action
Saada emphasized that the conditions of children in Gaza require a swift move by the International Criminal Court and all other international courts and all free judges in the world to prosecute Israeli and American war criminals who target children systematically and intentionally, pushing them into a historical holocaust broadcast live.
He noted that as a form of solace, the world should see these criminals dragged with all their shame and disgrace into the dock and have the law executed upon them before the eyes of the mothers of martyrs and the injured, to heal their pain, which will remain with them until the end of time.
Saada concluded, “Allah will not forgive us on Judgment Day for these children, for not acting when we saw them dying of hunger and remaining inactive, engrossed in our comforts and cowardly silence, distracted from supporting those of our blood, faith, race, and language.”
Living beside landfills
On Monday, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned that “Gaza’s children and their families are living next to landfills, suffering from diseases and foul odors.”
UNICEF’s Middle East and North Africa office stated in a post on its “X” platform account that “tons of solid waste accumulate throughout Gaza, and children and their families live next to landfills, suffering from diseases and foul odors.”
It explained that “no child should endure these conditions, and thus Gaza’s children need an immediate ceasefire.”
Previously, UNICEF mentioned that “children in the Mawasi area of Rafah Governorate, southern Gaza Strip, live in tents full of insects, in high temperatures, and constant fear.”
3,500 Children at risk of starving to death
The GMO in Gaza announced on Monday that “more than 3,500 children are at risk of death due to Israel’s starvation policies, lack of food, and nutritional supplements, and the prevention of aid.”
In a press statement, the GMO confirmed that “more than 3,500 children under the age of five are at risk of gradual death in Gaza due to Israel’s starvation policies, lack of milk and food, absence of nutritional supplements, deprivation of vaccinations, and the prevention of humanitarian aid for the fourth consecutive week amid terrible international silence.”
It pointed out that “these children suffer from advanced malnutrition, which has affected their bodies, exposing them to infectious diseases that threaten their lives, hinder their growth, and jeopardize their survival.”
Since October 7th, the Israeli occupation army, with American and European support, has been waging a brutal aggression on Gaza, bombing hospitals, buildings, towers, and Palestinian civilians’ homes, destroying them over the heads of their residents, and preventing the entry of water, food, medicine, and fuel.
The ongoing aggression on Gaza has resulted in 36,479 martyrs, 82,777 injuries, and the displacement of about 1.7 million residents, according to United Nations data.
