The painful story of missing children in Gaza
report Mehr News, citing al-Arabi al-Jadeed, the government information office in the Gaza Strip announced: nearly 5,000 of the missing people, whose number exceeds 11,000, are children, and the number They have increased especially after the recent barbaric military attack of the Zionist regime on the city of Rafah and the attempt of the occupying regime to cut off the communication routes of this area with other cities of Gaza.
There is documented information that shows that since the first month of the aggression of the occupying regime in the Gaza Strip, a large number of children remained under the rubble and their bodies have not been found yet.
Abdullah Sari, a three-year-old Palestinian boy, is one of these missing children. Abdallah’s father says that he went missing during his family’s continuous displacement from north to south of Gaza.
In the shadow of the barbaric and continuous bombardments of the Zionist regime army against civilian areas in the north of the Gaza Strip, especially in the middle months of the war, many refugees moved to the south, especially the city. Rafah, which the occupying regime had claimed was safe, fled.
Abdullah Sari’s father says that his son went missing at the checkpoint of the Zionist regime. In an interview with al-Arabi al-Jadid, he stated: When we were fleeing, the forces of the occupying regime bombed targets near Salah al-Din Street, which led to our dispersal, and after that we did not see Abdullah again and we have no information about him. . The Zionists may have kidnapped Abdullah and he may have been martyred. We haven’t heard from our child for more than two months and my wife has had a nervous breakdown.
He continued: Many children like Abdullah are missing and most likely martyred, but we hope they are alive. The painful thing is that Abdullah and other children in Gaza know war and bombing. Unfortunately, this is the terrible situation that the children of Gaza have.
The Ministry of Health and the State Information Department of the Gaza Strip have recorded the number of missing children in this area who have never returned.
Ahmed Abu Sultan, an 8-year-old Palestinian child, is another missing child in the Gaza Strip, his mother says, as a result of the occupation regime’s bombing of Khan Yunis in the south. In the Gaza Strip, Ahmed disappeared and there is no trace of him.
He said: I don’t know if my son is still alive or if he will find something to eat. Also, in the shadow of the continuous detention of Palestinian children by the occupying enemy army, I am worried that the Zionists have kidnapped Ahmed, and I ask all the released detainees about Ahmed to see if they have seen him in the prisons of the Zionist regime or not? But so far I have not received any information about my child.
Ahmed’s mother said: Many families in Gaza have lost a large number of their family members, including their children; Children who had not yet tasted life. My child to technology; He was very interested in life and football. He wore the uniform of the Barcelona team and his heart wanted to be a footballer.
Ramah Saleh, a 4-year-old Palestinian girl, is one of the other missing children in Gaza who went missing in the city of Rafah amid frequent Palestinian displacements.
Ramah’s uncle says: Many children are missing as a result of repeated displacements and we are still in contact with the relevant parties to know the fate of our children and we hope to find them alive. Let’s find.
“Salah Abdul Ati”, the head of the International Committee for the Protection of the Rights of the Palestinian Nation, announced that during the aggression of the occupying regime in the Gaza Strip, about 16,000 children were martyred and 25,000 were children. They are also injured. The Zionist regime grossly violates all international charters and resolutions in the field of children’s rights and has actually launched a war against children.
He added: between 10,000 and 15,000 people have gone missing since the beginning of the brutal aggression of the Zionist regime on the Gaza Strip. Of course, a large number of families have not announced the number of their missing persons, especially in residential areas that have been completely destroyed, and these families are waiting for the end of the war to determine the fate of the missing persons, many of whom seem to have been martyred. /p>
Salah Abdul Ati emphasized: more than 40 percent of the missing are children; Especially children of one year and below who do not know how to introduce themselves and do not know the names of their parents. Also, some of these children are among the people who were abducted from Gaza by the army of the occupying regime. Zionists have kidnapped at least 11,000 people, of which at least 1,000 are children under 10 years old.
He stated: Genocide of the occupying regime in a small area like the Gaza Strip and the loss of a large number of children shows the ugly level of the occupation’s crimes against children. Currently, the children who are in the prisons of the Zionist regime have unknown conditions and we do not know their fate. The case of missing children in Gaza will be one of the most complicated cases in the future; Because the occupying regime has destroyed the headquarters, associations, human rights institutions and all related infrastructures in Gaza, and there is no hope for the official and unofficial bodies of Gaza to return to their normal work.
