Ten Children Per Day in Gaza Have Their Legs Amputated: UNRWA
The head of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, highlighted on 25 June the horrific injury and maiming of Palestinian children resulting from Israel’s bombing of Gaza.
“Basically, we have, every day, 10 children who are losing one leg or two legs on average,” Lazzarini told reporters in Geneva.
UNRWA used data from the UN children’s agency UNICEF and noted that the figure mentioned “does not even include the arms and the hands, and we have many more” of these.
“Ten per day, that meansaround 2,000 children after the more than 260 days of this brutal war,”Lazzarini added.
He further noted that amputations are being carried out in “horrible conditions.”
Separately, the US-based NGO Save the Children estimates that about 21,000 children are missing as a result of Israel’s war on Gaza.
As of Monday, Israel’s bombing of the Gaza Strip has resulted in the death of 37,626 people, about 75 percent of whom are children, women, and the elderly. Over 15,821 of the dead are children, and over 10,475 are women.
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