Children in Gaza, when not threatened with Israeli bombs and bullets, are still looking at a grim future –– with evacuations for injured minors having dwindled to less than one a day.
An injured Palestinian baby at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital following an Israeli attack on Nuseirat refugee camp in Deir al-Balah, Gaza on October 24, 2024. / Photo: AA
"As a result, children in Gaza are dying, not just from the bombs and the bullets and the shells that strike them," he said, describing several cases of children with severe, life-threatening injuries facing unexplained delays or refusals of doctors' evacuation requests. COGAT, the Israeli military body responsible for Palestinian civilian issues including medical evacuations from Gaza, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the question of evacuations generally or the specific cases cited by UNICEF.Among the cases described by Elder was that of Mazunia, a 12-year-old girl whose face had been blown off in a rocket strike that killed both her siblings.
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