Ayed Abu Eqtaish is the advocacy director of the Palestinian organization Defense for Children International-Palestine. Since October 7, violations of the rights of Palestinian children have increased, he says.
The situation is even more serious today, as children who survived airstrikes and tank fire are now suffering from starvation. Israel, the occupying power, is preventing the flow of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, and this is genocide, says Abu EQtaish. He says Israel wants to silence all human rights organizations that denounce their crimes against the Palestinian people.