UNICEF: 600,000 children are hungry and terrified in Rafah
| International organizations, including UNICEF, have warned of severe food insecurity throughout Gaza and announced that 600,000 children in Rafah alone are suffering from fear and hunger and have nowhere to go safely. |
According to the international group Tasnim news agency, amid severe warnings about famine and starvation throughout Gaza. In the shadow of the encroachment and siege that the occupying regime has imposed on this region, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) announced in a report that the food insecurity crisis in the Gaza Strip has reached a terrible stage and the signs of famine have been revealed in the north of this region.
Severe food insecurity crisis in the Gaza Strip
The organization further reported that for the first time since the escalation of conflicts in Gaza, our teams were able to provide food The need to bring animals into Gaza. The report further states that the destruction of the agricultural production chain has led to the deterioration of the food security situation of the people of Gaza, and signs of famine can be seen in the north of this region. >600,000 children in Rafah are hungry and terrified
On the other hand, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced that 600,000 children in Rafah, located in the southernmost point of Gaza, are starving. and they suffer from fear and are at risk of an Israeli attack.
This organization, by publishing sad pictures of the dire situation of children in Gaza, calls for a permanent and immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the continuous and unconditional entry of humanitarian aid to this
“James Elder”, the spokesperson of UNICEF, pointing out that in addition to northern Gaza, other regions are also suffering from the terrible consequences of the war and the risk of hunger and famine threatens all the people of Gaza, he said that children and Families terrified by Israeli attacks were told that Rafah was safe and to go there. But despite this, brutal attacks were carried out in this area. Gaza under the shadow of hunger and disease and iftar/faith; The Palestinians’ only weapon in the war of hunger And the death of children due to hunger
He added that today Rafah is actually a city of children and 600 thousand children, boys and girls, live here. These children are besieged in Rafah and have no safe place to go, and are under the daily threat of Israel’s military attack on this area. and hunger to give hope to their children, he said: the word hope is being removed from the dictionary of Gaza and we ask all those who understand the pain and suffering of parents towards their children to stop this suffering in Rafah.
In the situation that the children of Gaza are the biggest victims of the barbaric crimes of the occupying regime and the hunger war of this regime against Gaza, Philip Lazzarini, Commissioner General of UNRWA, considered the current war of the Zionist regime in Gaza as a war against children and said that the number of children who are alone In 4 months, more children have died in Gaza than all the children who have died in all conflicts in the world in 4 years.
In an article, the English newspaper Independent quoted a doctor who spent some time in Gaza. It announced that the biggest cause of death for children in Gaza was the bombing, and a large number died due to diseases caused by the war as well as starvation. Children, pregnant and lactating mothers and people with disabilities are more at risk of malnutrition because Israel continues to It prevents sufficient amounts of food and water from entering Gaza, and in addition, the systematic bombing of bakeries and agricultural products continues, and 95 percent of Gaza residents suffer from food insecurity.
The spokesperson of the United Nations Children’s Fund announced that the children of Gaza are exposed to war, terror and hunger every day; While the world just sits and watches. Gaza is no longer a suitable place for more than a million children to live there.
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