The painful tragedy of missing children in Gaza

According to the international group Tasnim news agency, as well as the official statistics of the government of Gaza as well as various international institutions And the United Nations shows that the largest number of victims of the brutal aggression of the Zionist regime on the Gaza Strip are children, and so far more than 15,000 children have been martyred during the 8 months of Israel’s genocidal war against Gaza.

The painful tragedy of children. Missing in Gaza

But in addition to the children who were martyred during the invasion of the occupying enemy in the Gaza Strip or suffered severe physical injuries such as disability and amputation, a large number of these children are still missing. and it is not known whether the Zionist army kidnapped them or whether they were buried under the rubble. In addition, a number of bodies were hidden in the mass graves that were recently discovered after the withdrawal of the Zionist occupying forces from Gaza hospitals. by the occupation army in these graves belonged to children, and in the investigations, it was found that the Zionist soldiers deliberately targeted and massacred these children along with other Palestinian civilians, and the traces of torture before death are also found on their bodies; Besides, many bodies were dismembered.

According to the statistics provided by the government information office in the Gaza Strip, more than 17 thousand children in Gaza were separated from their parents or one of them after the war. And their parents are either martyred or missing.

Among this, there are many parents who have lost their children and their children have been missing for months and there is no information about their fate.

“Did I really survive?”, this is the question that “Ahmad Hamad”, a 47-year-old Palestinian father who came out from under the rubble more than two months ago, repeats to himself.

This Palestinian man lost his wife and two of his children during the bombardment of the Zionist regime in the city of Deir al-Balah in the center of the Gaza Strip, and he himself was able to get out of the rubble alive.

He says that on the bloody night of 6 March, when enemy forces brutally targeted residential buildings in Deir al-Balah, he lost his wife and 2 of his children, and after a while, the bodies of his wife and two children were found, but one of his children is still missing and there is no news. It is not from him.

Ahmad Hammad says that the grief of losing my martyr’s wife and children is on the one hand, and the grief of my son Hadi, whose body has not even been found, is on the other. I don’t even know after that bloody night if there was anything left of Hadi’s little body that I could bury or if his body was completely disintegrated and destroyed by the force of the explosion.

Hadi 5 years more and is considered one of the thousands of missing children in the Gaza Strip; Both the children who were left under the rubble and the children who were abducted from Gaza by the Zionist army. According to the official information of the government information office in the Gaza Strip, there are thousands of sick and injured children in this area who need treatment. They want to leave Gaza and the Zionist regime does not allow them to leave.

Israel’s war with children

May 25 of every year coincides with the International Day of “Missing Children”. has been” In this context, Ismail al-Thawabateh, the director general of the government information office in the Gaza Strip, said: On this day, we want to remind the world that there are more than 10,000 missing people in Gaza, most of whom are children. On this hot day, the hearts of our honorable people in Gaza, who have all lost at least a few members of their families in the aggression of the Zionist enemy, are refreshed. They have testified that most of them were children and there are still many missing children and we have no information about their fate. During the enemy bombings, they were left under the rubble and their bodies have been under the rubble for months. Due to the lack of facilities, specialized teams have not been able to find these bodies from under the rubble and pull them out. Ismail al-Thawabateh continued: The issue of missing persons is one of the painful and distressing issues for our families and people in the Gaza Strip. In the course of this brutal war, the Zionist regime is In addition, the war has caused 17 thousand children to live without their parents or one of them, which is a very large number. The occupying army’s brutal war against Gaza has doubled the number of orphaned children in Palestinian society. The children of Gaza are in a very bad situation and they are the weakest and most affected group in the Zionist regime’s genocidal war in the Gaza Strip. Salah Abdul Ati, head of the International Commission for the Defense of the Rights of the Palestinian People, estimates that more than 15,000 children have been martyred in Israel’s genocidal war against Gaza, and more than 25,000 children have been injured, and the occupying regime has clearly violated all laws and conventions. has violated the protection of children’s rights. According to the documents of this international commission, 40% of the 10,000 to 15,000 missing persons in the Gaza Strip are children. Also, the information shows that the invaders have kidnapped 11 thousand people from Gaza, at least 1000 of them are children. Also, 6,000 Palestinians from Gaza are still being held by the Zionists, 600 of whom are children, and there is no information about the conditions of their detention and life. and the missing people from under the rubble of Gaza and clarify the fate of the children detained by the Zionist army and prevent the continued aggression of the invaders against civilians, especially children in the Gaza Strip. And the mother has created a dangerous human reality for children in Gaza, which is very inhumane, and the crimes that Israel commits against children in Gaza violate all international norms and conventions, especially the Fourth Geneva Convention, which guarantees the protection of children during armed conflicts.

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