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More than 10 children lose limbs every day in Gaza: Advocacy group
“Small children caught up in explosions are particularly vulnerable to major, life-changing injuries. They have weaker necks and torsos, so less force is needed to cause a brain injury,” said Jason Lee, Save the Children’s director for the occupied Palestinian territory, in a statement. “Their skulls are still not fully formed, and their undeveloped muscles offer less protection, so a blast is more likely to tear apart organs in their abdomen, even when there is no visible damage.”
Since October 7, more than 1,000 children have had one or both legs amputated, according to UNICEF.
Many of these operations on children were done without anaesthetic, with major shortages of doctors and nurses, and medical supplies like anaesthesia and antibiotics, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Eman Al-Kholi, whose limb was amputated after being wounded in an Israeli strike that killed her parents, lies on a bed as she receives treatment at the European Hospital, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip
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UNICEF calls for ceasefire and humanitarian corridor
UNICEF says it needs the fighting to stop to protect children after the delivery of 600,000 doses of vaccines.
“UNICEF continues to call for a ceasefire and humanitarian corridor for the provision of critical child survival interventions to avert unnecessary deaths associated with communicable diseases,” the organisation said in a post.
“Today the situation is unimaginably stressful for children in Gaza. We do not want to see children who survive the bombing to die because they are not vaccinating,” said the organisation’s Maulid Warfa.
‘Non-human animals’: Monitor details Israeli army abuse of detainees
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor detailed mistreatment and “torture” of Palestinians taken prisoner by the Israeli army.
In a report built on testimony from newly released people who spent days in Israeli custody, the Geneva-based rights group detailed how army and Shin Bet members treat Palestinians as “non-human animals”.
Detainees are regularly beaten, stripped naked, and made to sit on their knees on the street for long periods. They are also made to curse themselves and Palestinian groups, endure electric-shock torture, are burned with cigarettes, and held in iron cages, it said.
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