Statement by Entisaf Organization on the occasion of Palestinian Children’s Day, April 5

On Apr 6, 2024

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More than 14,350 thousand children have been killed since October 7, 2023

The fifth of April every year marks the celebration of Palestinian Children’s Day with the aim of supporting the children of Palestine who still suffer from the lack of the most basic rights to enjoy their innocent childhood and the right to life as a result of the ongoing Israeli violations against them. Israel ignores all international conventions and norms. Thousands of children in Gaza are being killed, especially since October 7, 2023. For more than 181 days, the Zionist entity has been targeting the children of Gaza with hundreds of thousands of raids, which led to more than 33,037 deaths and 75,668 injuries, including more than 14,500 children who were killed or wounded (73%). ) Of the victims are children and women, in other words, the Israeli enemy kills 4 children every hour, and the number of missing persons as a result of the Zionist occupation raids has risen to more than 7,000 cases, more than 72% of whom are children and women.

While those who remain alive live in fear, panic, hunger, and siege, or are displaced with their families in the open, in a shameful silence for the entire world and for the United Nations and its organizations.

The Intisaf Organization for Women and Children’s Rights stated that

there. More than 17 thousand children live without their parents or one of them, and there are more than one million children in need of mental health services and psychosocial support in the Gaza Strip.

The Intisaf organization reported that the number of displaced people reached 2 million in the Gaza Strip, including at least 17 thousand children in the Gaza Strip – that is, 1% of the total number of displaced people – who are not accompanied by their families or separated from them.

The Intisaf Organization indicates that the percentage of workers employed by children

According to reports, there were more than 1.05 million children under the age of eighteen living in the Gaza Strip before the war, constituting 47.1 percent of the Strip’s population, including about 32 percent under the age of five (340 thousand children).

Entisaf Organization stated that the great shortage of nutritious food, clean water, and medical services is affecting children and hindering the ability of mothers to breastfeed their children, especially in the northern Gaza Strip, where more than 30 children died as a result of malnutrition, drought, and famine, and nearly 135 children are also exposed. 335,000 under the age of two and 335,000 under the age of five are at high risk of acute malnutrition, with a serious negative impact on their development and right to health. At least 90 percent of children under the age of five are infected with one or more infectious diseases, and 70% of children under the age of five are infected with one or more infectious diseases. percent of them from diarrhea. In January, it was found that one in six infants (children under the age of two) in northern Gaza suffers from acute malnutrition, leading to a condition known as wasting.

There are more than 20 thousand children who were born in the Gaza Strip in light of the aggression, at a rate that says there is a child born every ten minutes.

The Intisaf organization explained that there are more than 1,000 children who have lost one or both of their legs every day in Gaza since October 7, 2023, while many amputations are performed without anesthesia, as hospitals are crowded with children and their parents.

With regard to education, the Intisaf organization added that a number. The dead students are more than 6,050 students. While the number of wounded students reached more than 4,863 wounded, male and female, while the number of students who were deprived of their right to education in the Gaza Strip reached more than 608 thousand students, male and female, due to the Zionist aggression, and 408 schools were bombed and vandalized since the beginning of the aggression.

The #Intisaf organization called for an end to the aggression and unjust siege on Palestine in all its forms. We call on the free people of the world to stand with the Palestinian people and expose the crimes of the United States of America and its allies, including Britain, Israel, the countries of the West, and countries affiliated with the Islamic nation.

The organization appealed to the United Nations to cancel the decision to remove the aggression coalition from the list of killing and maiming children, as they continue to commit horrific massacres against women and children from the beginning of the aggression until the present day.

The organization called on all human rights, legal and media organizations and bodies to highlight all violations and crimes committed against civilians, especially women and children, and reveal them to international public opinion in preparation for bringing their perpetrators to justice and trying them, and to form an independent international fact-finding committee to investigate all crimes and violations that have occurred since the beginning of the aggression on October 7. 2023 .

The organization renewed its call to the peoples of the world and the Islamic nation not to forget the blood that was wasted and is still being shed in Palestine, and that all crimes be fuel for liberation from enslavement and foreign guardianship. The countries that imposed the impression of stopping all forms of normalization with the Zionist entity.