More than 10 children losing legs in Gaza every day as dire health crisis grows

NB: Approximately 90 thousand Palestinians killed, wounded or missing, including nearly ten thousand children. Wounded children with no relatives; children being amputated without anaesthesia. Vast neighbourhoods levelled to the ground. Is this enough for Netanyahu and Biden? Has any part of human cruelty toward subject populations changed for twenty five centuries since thousands of slaves followed Spartacus against the power of the Roman Empire? Apparently not. As the Yiddish proverb tells us: The truth never dies, but is made to live as a beggar. But even beggars come to life one day. DS

The charity also cited a WHO statement which said many of these operations on children were conducted without anaesthesia, given the severe shortages in medical supplies and basic goods in Gaza… Lee said he had seen “doctors and nurses completely overwhelmed” when children are brought in with blast wounds… “The impact of seeing children in that much pain and not having the equipment, medicines to treat them or alleviate pain is too much for even experienced professionals,” he said…. Children are nearly 7 times more likely to die from blast injuries than adults as they are more vulnerable and sensitive to injuries..

GAZA casualties live statistics

Jessie Yeung, Radina Gigova and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN

More than 10 children on average have lost one or both of their legs every day in Gaza since October 7, with many amputations performed without anesthesia, a charity said Sunday, underscoring the dire humanitarian situation in the Palestinian enclave following more than three months of Israeli bombardment.

In a statement citing United Nations statistics, Save the Children’s director for the occupied Palestinian territory, Jason Lee, said the “suffering of children in this conflict is unimaginable and even more so because it is unnecessary and completely avoidable.”

“The killing and maiming of children is condemned as a grave violation against children, and perpetrators must be held to account,” he said.

Save the Children referenced remarks from UNICEF spokesperson James Elder, who after returning from Gaza, said on December 19 that around 1,000 children had lost one or both of their legs since October 7, when Hamas launched its attack on Israel and war broke out….

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/08/middleeast/gaza-children-losing-legs-disease-intl-hnk/index.html

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