Gaza is a graveyard for Palestinian children.
4,104 children and 611 elderly people.
On Monday, UN Secretary General António Guterres warned that Gaza is “becoming a graveyard for children,”
Guterres added: “The unfolding catastrophe makes the need for a humanitarian ceasefire more urgent.”
Based on the Gaza ministry’s figures, at least one child is being killed in Gaza every 10 minutes.
“The nightmare in Gaza is more than a humanitarian crisis. It is a crisis of humanity,” Guterres told reporters.
Ministry spokesperson Ashraf Al Qudra said 10,022 Palestinians in Gaza had been killed by Israeli strikes, including 4,104 children and 611 elderly people.
The ministry also reported 25,408 injured.
I see those numbers and I can’t help but think back to my years as an elementary teacher and the children I was privileged to teach art to every day.
4,000 dead Palestinian children.
That would be equal to 6 years of my students.
Save the Children said last month that the number of children reported killed in Gaza in the past month has surpassed the annual number of children killed in armed conflict globally in each of the past four years.
The Israeli government has not allowed fuel to enter Gaza with the small number of trucks carrying humanitarian shipments.
“Without fuel, newborn babies in incubators and patients on life support will die,” the UN Secretary General Guterres said.
How is it that U.S. politicians I once respected cannot bring themselves to join the call for a ceasefire?