Four Palestinian children have reportedly been killed and
several injured by Israeli forces over the past six days,
including a 10
year old in a tent in Gaza today, said Save the
Children. The child rights organisation called once again
for urgent international intervention.
Gaza medics
said four people were killed in the airstrike today
including a 10 year old child, according to media
reports .
Meanwhile, another child in Gaza was
reportedly killed
fetching water on Friday; and a 16 year old boy was killed,
along with two other children injured by gunfire from
Israeli forces during a military raid in Qalandia refugee
camp in the West Bank, according to the Ministry of Health.
On Tuesday a child was reportedly
killed and others were injured in a drone strike on a
vehicle south of Gaza City.
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A four-month-old baby also
reportedly
died in the West Bank on Sunday after his transfer to access
urgent medical care was delayed for more than an hour at an
Israeli military checkpoint west of Ramallah.
The
latest deaths come two weeks after the UN
Commission of Inquiry concluded that Israeli authorities
and security forces have deliberately targeted Palestinian
children. The total number of children killed by Israeli
forces since the report’s publication is now at least
11.
Ahmad Alhendawi, Save the Children’s Regional
Director for the Middle East, North Africa and Eastern
Europe said:
“The killing today of another child
should not just be another statistic – this is a precious
life that has survived 1000 days of war, displacement and
hunger only to be shattered in seconds. This child was a
family’s whole world.
“In just two weeks, 11 more
Palestinian children have been killed in cold blood, and
another’s life cut short as he waits for lifesaving care.
Children are meant to be off-limits in war – this is the
rule of law. Yet the world, in its disgraceful inaction, is
sending the message that Palestinians are
exempt.
“Despite the alarm bells, despite the reports
and the data, Israeli forces are getting away with killing
children so regularly that the world barely seems to blink
an eyelid. Whether by bullets or by being denied access to
lifesaving medical care, each death reflects a profound
failure to protect children. This is total impunity. The
indiscriminate targeting of Palestinian children must end
now.”
About Save the Children
NZ:
Save the Children calls on all governments to
cease the transfer of arms to the Government of Israel, and
to comply fully with the July 2024 Advisory Opinion of the
International Court of Justice. Member states must intervene
to prevent atrocity crimes from continuing throughout the
occupied Palestinian territory and refrain from complicity
in them-immediately and without delay.
Save the
Children has worked in the occupied Palestinian territory
since 1953, with a permanent presence since 1973. We work
with partners to help provide quality education, protection
for children, early childhood development support, and
employment opportunities for young
people.
