GAZA, (PIC)
The Government Media Office (GMO) said that more than 3,500 children are at risk of death in the Gaza Strip due to the Israeli occupation’s policies of starvation, food shortages, lack of nutritional supplements, and prevention of aid, calling on the world to urgently save the lives of these children.
In a press release on Monday, the GMO elaborated that more than 3,500 children under the age of five are at risk of gradual death in the Gaza Strip due to the Israeli occupation’s policies of starving children, shortage of milk and food, lack of nutritional supplements, deprivation of vaccinations, and prevention of humanitarian aid for the fourth consecutive week amid terrible international silence.
These children suffer from advanced malnutrition, which has affected their body structure, making them vulnerable to infectious diseases that threaten their lives, delay their growth, and jeopardize their survival, the GMO stated, adding that they lack access to basic services such as food, healthcare, and regular medical follow-up, with their conditions getting worse and more severe due to the deprivation of vaccinations and necessary medicinal doses in their early years of life.
It highlighted that children in the Gaza Strip need immediate and fundamental solutions to all the crises they are systematically subjected to by the Israeli occupation, primarily the provision of food, healthcare, nutritional supplements, and vaccinations, as well as specialized food for children.
The GMO explained further that children particularly need advanced psychological care in light of the horrors they have witnessed, revealing that during the genocide, 15,438 children were killed, tens of thousands were injured, and more than 17,000 children now live without one or both parents.
The GMO strongly condemned the continuation of the genocide and crimes against humanity committed by the Israeli occupation, supported by the US administration which include the targeting of children with killing, maiming, starvation, deprivation of treatment and healthcare, and denial of food, calling on all free countries of the world to condemn these compounded crimes, which are part of the genocide against civilians in the Gaza Strip.
It also warned the international community, UN and international organizations, child welfare organizations, and all countries of the world about the deteriorating situation of children in the Gaza Strip and the catastrophic and dangerous situation of more than 3,500 children under five who are at risk of gradual death due to the Israeli occupation’s policies of starvation, food shortages, lack of nutritional supplements, and deprivation of vaccinations.
The GMO demanded them all to fulfill their responsibilities and save the children in the Gaza Strip, whose number is 335,000 and are living under extremely difficult conditions due to the genocide, displacement, and other circumstances of the Israeli aggression.
It appealed to the International Criminal Court, all other international courts, and all free judges worldwide to prosecute the Israeli and US war criminals who systematically and deliberately target children, throwing them into an unprecedented historical inferno, demanding bringing them to justice as war criminals.
The GMO called on all free nations of the world and all international and UN organizations to pressure the Israeli occupation and the US administration to stop the genocide and open the Rafah border crossing, the Kerem Shalom crossing, and all land crossings, as well as to allow the entry of various types of children’s food.
