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La Jornada Newspaper
Sunday, December 8, 2024, p. 17
Ramallah. The Gaza Strip became a cemetery for children and their familiesdenounced the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), where yesterday’s Israeli attacks left at least 52 Palestinians dead.
Edouard Beigbeder, regional director of Unicef, pointed out that no minor should have to endure such atrocities and carnage and no parent should have to bury their child; warned that the humanitarian response in Gaza is on the verge of complete collapse.
The lives of virtually all children are at risk or have been shattered by unimaginable trauma, loss and deprivation.Beigbeder emphasized.
He added that some 50,000 minors in the coastal enclave suffer from acute malnutrition and maintained that no child who lines up for a piece of bread or who takes refuge in a temporary tent should be trampled to death or killed by a plane Israeli.
Meanwhile, nearly 12,000 patients in Gaza need to travel abroad to receive treatment, but are unable to do so due to the blockade imposed by Tel Aviv, reported the director of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Since the Israeli army invaded the city of Rafah and closed the border crossing of the same name in May, fewer than 300 sick and wounded have been evacuated to receive necessary care, and more than a thousand Gazans have died due to this limitation, the WHO representative reported. , Rick Peeperkorn.
Rafah was Gaza’s only window for the entry of food, fuel and medicine, as well as for transporting the wounded and sick.
The huge increase in rehabilitation needs occurs in parallel with the continued destruction of the health systemdenounced Peeperkorn.
The death toll since the start of the war in October 2023 reached 44,664 people, according to Palestinian authorities.
Qatar expressed hope for a new boost to efforts to reach a ceasefire agreement between Tel Aviv and Hamas, while the armed wing of the Islamic resistance movement showed on video Matan Zangauker, a hostage held in the strip, whose mother assured that after 14 months of sleepless hell finally saw “a sign of life from his son and asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to finish with this war and bring everyone home.
Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim al Thani, Prime Minister of Qatar, who resumed the role of negotiator between Israel and Hamas, stated yesterday that the election of Donald Trump in the United States offers a new impulse to negotiate a truce, even before the president takes office.
Hamas reiterated in a statement that an agreement could be reached if the end of the war in Gaza was guaranteed: The end of war and aggression is the condition for any agreement.
In this context, in the video published by Hamas, hostage Matan Zangauker, 25, calls for pressure to be put on the Israeli government to achieve his release. Zangauker was captured at his home on Kibbutz Nir Oz along with his Israeli-Mexican partner, Ilana Gritzewsky, released on November 30, 2023 during a truce.
Please do everything you can to reach an agreement that brings everyone back and ends the war.said Einav Zangauker, the hostage’s mother, during a rally in Tel Aviv.
Thousands of people demonstrated, both in Israel’s capital and in other cities, against Netanyahu’s government, demanding an end to the war.
In Lebanon, at least six people were killed on Thursday by Israel’s offensive in the south, despite the ceasefire in force.
Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati called on the international community to take decisive measures and put an end to the repeated violations of the truce, which continue to leave dead and injured people on the southern border.