Make the pause permanent.
Over 6,000 children have been killed in Gaza since the start of the Israeli invasion.
4,400 children are reported missing.
Where are they?
Very likely they are under the rubble of apartments and hospitals bombed by Israeli rockets.
58 children have been killed in the West Bank.
36 children still remain as prisoners by Hamas.
Hundreds of children are held by Israel in what is called administrative detention with no charges or trials.
If the pause does not continued then more children will die.
TESTIMONY OF A DOCTOR FROM GAZA
"I have worked in hospitals in Afghanistan, Uganda, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Cambodia, Jenin... but I have never operated on so many injured children as now in the Gaza Strip.
We don't have enough painkillers for everyone, we operate with minimal levels of anesthesia. And we are forced to choose who we save and who we let go".
Ley said the hardest thing for doctors was to make selection decisions.
"We make our choice... [asking] are we going to take this patient because he will have a good chance of survival instead of taking desperate measures on a patient who will die in two or three days? That sounds good on paper, but when you have to make the decision is different.
There is a 12-year-old with 90% burns, so we won't treat him except for pain control which isn't enough".
How many kids are being hospitalized?
"Just to give you an idea: we have a special unit for burn victims and 40% of patients are under 15. 13% are under 5 years old. Infections spread rapidly, almost everyone has coughing".
What kind of injuries do they have?
"There are no signs of a gunshot. "All have survived bombings, air raids and the collapse of buildings, have body injuries, devastating injuries and burns of varying degrees".
The killing of children in Gaza has reached historic proportions.
Using U.S.-made bombs that weigh 2,000 pounds “that can flatten [apartment towers],” Israel has killed “roughly 10,000 women and children” according to the New York Times.
Women and children make up almost 70 percent of all deaths reported in Gaza.
ScheerPost reports that according to Rick Brennan, the regional emergency director for the World Health Organization’s Eastern Mediterranean office, the opposite is typically expected. “In past clashes between Israel and Hamas, for example, about 60 percent of the reported deaths in Gaza were men,” according to the Times.
Further, “U.S. military officials often believed that the most common American aerial bomb — a 500-pound weapon — was far too large for most targets when battling the Islamic State in urban areas like Mosul, Iraq, and Raqqa, Syria,” according to the Times. As the Times reported:
“‘It’s beyond anything that I’ve seen in my career,’ said Marc Garlasco, a military adviser for the Dutch organization PAX and a former senior intelligence analyst at the Pentagon. To find a historical comparison for so many large bombs in such a small area, he said, we may ‘have to go back to Vietnam, or the Second World War.’”
The New York Times also reported that “People are being killed in Gaza more quickly…than in even the deadliest moments of U.S.-led attacks in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, which were themselves widely criticized by human rights groups.”