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‘The unthinkable in Gaza City has already begun’, UNICEF warns
Tess Ingram, UNICEF’s communication manager for the Middle East and North Africa, told a UN briefing from Gaza that famine and bombardment are pushing children to the brink.
“Gaza City, the last refuge for families in the north, is fast becoming a place where childhood cannot survive”, she said, warning that almost 1 million people remain trapped in a “city of fear, flight and funerals”.
Ingram described hospitals on the verge of collapse, with only five neonatal intensive care units left and incubators running at double capacity. Malnutrition clinics are overwhelmed, she said, with children relapsing just weeks after treatment as food and aid remain blocked.
She highlighted the story of Nesma, a mother whose two-year-old daughter Jouri died of Israeli-induced starvation last month, while her nine-year-old, Jana, now clings to life.
“This unthinkable is not looming – it is already here. The escalation is under way,” she said of the Israeli army’s Gaza City incursion. “The cost of inaction will be measured in the lives of children buried in rubble, wasted by hunger, and silenced before they ever had a chance to speak,” Ingram said.
Footage shows civil defence crew pulling bodies from rubble in Gaza City
Gaza’s civil defence teams were filmed rescuing victims from under the rubble of a destroyed house in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City, where Israeli forces have been intensifying attacks as part of their planned offensive to seize the enclave’s urban centre.
The video, posted on social media and verified by Al Jazeera, shows rescuers using only basic tools and their hands to lift debris from the destroyed home that belonged to the al-Ghaf family.
According to the civil defence member who filmed the scene, three bodies were recovered, while others were pulled out injured. At least 35 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza City so far today, sources at local hospitals tell Al Jazeera.
Footage shows destruction from Israeli army shelling in Gaza City
Video posted on social media, and verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency, shows the moment an Israeli shelling targeted several homes in the Sabra neighbourhood of Gaza City.
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