The number of women and children killed in Gaza after more than two months of bombing “exceeds anything we have seen in recent conflicts,” the official said in an interview with Al-Jazeera media outlet, and stressed that people working on The ground in Gaza were left without words to describe the indescribable level of suffering and horror.
Being a Palestinian woman or child within that hell “really means being stripped of any humanity, dignity, security or special consideration that would normally be given to women or children in times of peace or conflict,” she lamented.
Last week the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned that almost a million minors were forcibly displaced since the beginning of violence in the Gaza Strip.
“The Gaza Strip is once again the most dangerous place in the world to be a child”, UNICEF executive director Catherine Russell denounced earlier this month.
The NGO Save the Children indicated that more than a million children are at risk of dying due to the humanitarian disaster that the territory is experiencing.
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