GAZA, (PIC)
Words are not enough to describe the Israeli crime: successive airstrikes on various areas in the Gaza Strip, with targets, as always, being children, women, and innocents—a criminal scene that has been repeated for over 14 months.
On Saturday morning, Israeli warplanes targeted a school in Magda Al-Wasila, west of Gaza City, resulting in the death of a 3-day-old girl alongside her mother, in addition to 5 others.
The PIC reporter confirmed that the Israeli warplanes bombed a classroom in the school, destroying it above the heads of displaced people inside, at a time when they were preparing whatever food they could find for breakfast.
This scene is not from a movie or a novel; a girl who has lived only 3 days ascends to God as a martyr, complaining of the Israeli crimes and the inaction of the indifferent world. She exposed the shame of normalizers, the silent, and the conspirators.
“Hanan Al-Ghura” is not the only child to have been martyred due to the genocide; reports from the Ministry of Health confirmed that 18,000 Palestinian children have been killed since the onset of the genocide, including 1,000 infants under one year old.
Hanan did not leave her mother during those three days; her mother passed away with her, and she had seen nothing of the world except for an occupying criminal who decided to bury her before she could see the light of life, the same one who kills fetuses in the wombs, starves, kills, and oppresses.
They killed Hanan with missiles
They killed Hanan with missiles, and they are the same ones who kill her peers and companions through hunger and deprivation of milk and diapers, and deny them healthcare, education, and proper nutrition.
Abu Muhammad Al-Ghura, Hanan’s uncle, confirmed in statements to our reporter that his brother’s daughter was in the Wasila school in western Gaza City, where her mother placed her under harsh humanitarian conditions. He stated that the child lived only three days before she was killed alongside her mother in a deliberate attack on the school, without any justification.
He appealed to the free world to intervene to save the children from the massacre that the occupation forces continue to commit, saying: “It’s enough that they are deprived of milk, diapers, and food, and are being killed in a brutal and criminal manner.”
Civilians are the target
Our reporter confirmed that most of the airstrikes carried out by Israeli occupation warplanes result in civilian casualties among women and children. The international organization Airwars confirmed that the ongoing Israeli genocide against the Gaza Strip for the second consecutive year is the deadliest in the 21st century and involves the highest level of damage inflicted on civilians, especially women and children.
The organization said that in almost all measures, the harm to civilians since the first month of the Israeli genocide against Gaza is unparalleled by any air campaign in the 21st century, and it is undoubtedly “the most intensive, destructive, and lethal conflict documented against civilians ever.”
The organization refuted claims by Israeli officials that the army is doing everything possible to avoid harming civilians and that the level of damage inflicted on them is largely consistent with other similar conflicts in recent decades, including the US-led bombing campaign against ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
The organization confirmed that Israel has conducted air campaigns since the onset of the war on Gaza with more frequent strikes, greater intensity of damage, and a higher threshold of tolerance for harm to civilians than before.
Psychological wounds
In this context, a new study revealed how Gaza has become one of the worst places in the world for children. In addition to the physical destruction of hospitals, schools, and homes, children suffer from “invisible but devastating psychological wounds.”
The study conducted by the Community Training Center for Crisis Management, under the auspices of the “Children of War” coalition, highlighted the destructive psychological impact of the war on children in Gaza.
The study showed that 96% of children in Gaza feel that their death is near, while about half of them wish for death due to the psychological effects resulting from the ongoing Israeli genocide against the enclave for the second consecutive year.
