God bless them all – Peter
A child given a single painkiller a day after her legs were blown off, a teen killed by tank fire while getting bread and 30 members of one family gone in a single strike highlight the dire situation in Gaza.
UNICEF global spokesman James Elder has called for an end of callous indifference to children suffering in the besieged strip after more than two years of war.
Mr Elder recounted harrowing examples of grievous atrocities from his six missions to Gaza in a speech at Canberra’s National Press Club on Tuesday, and demanded more humanitarian aid and accountability for alleged war crimes in the region.
“What young Australians, Australian children are learning as they watch this unfold, they see that the rules of law, meant to protect civilians and children, seem to depend on who the child is or
“So this generation is being taught that fairness is optional, compassion is negotiable.”
More than 40,000 children in Gaza had suffered injuries from the conflict since the war began in October 2023, according to Save the Children.
Mr Elder said it is hard to understand how “things in Gaza went on and on and on” after the horrors of the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023 in which dozens of Israeli children were among those killed or abducted.
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