The bodies of 3 children who were martyred in an Israeli bombing after being transported to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip (Anatolia Agency)
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) announced - on Sunday - that more than 13,000 children were killed and thousands more were injured during the ongoing Israeli war on the Gaza Strip for more than 5 months.
The organization's executive director, Katherine Russell, told CBS News that this rate of deaths among children has never been recorded in almost any other conflict in the world.
She added that many children suffer from severe anemia and malnutrition and do not “even have the energy to cry,” noting that there are what she called very significant bureaucratic challenges before aid trucks enter Gaza.
For its part, Amnesty International (Amnesty) appealed on Sunday to US President Joe Biden to call for an immediate and sustainable ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and to stop supplying weapons to Israel.
The organization said in its account on the “X” platform (formerly Twitter) that more than 30,000 people have been killed so far in the Israeli attack on Gaza, many of them with American-made ammunition.
Amnesty International called for lifting the Israeli blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip for nearly 16 years.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said on Saturday that malnutrition in Gaza has reached unprecedented levels, noting that one in every three children under two years of age in the northern Gaza Strip suffers from it.
UNRWA warned that people in Gaza are on the verge of famine, and stressed the need for the largest possible number of them to have access to the necessary aid.
Source: Al Jazeera + agencies