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UN Acting Humanitarian Chief, Joyce Msuya, stated that the situation in Gaza is reminiscent of the worst international crimes since the League of Nations was established in 1919.
She reported over 10,000 Palestinian bodies under rubble, with Israel blocking rescue equipment. 70% of Gaza’s buildings are destroyed, aid is blocked, and hospitals and shelters have been attacked.
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“Drones would come down and pick off civilians, children”
British surgeon Nizam Mamode, retired NHS doctor who recently returned after working at Nasser Hospital, broke down in UK Parliament as he described Israeli occupation quadcopters deliberately shooting Palestinian children.
He said at least once or twice daily, there were “mass casualty incidents,” meaning that 10 to 20 people were killed and up to 40 seriously injured, estimating that at least 60 percent of the people treated at these times were women and children.
“This is not an occasional thing. This was day after day after day operating on children who would say, ‘I was lying on the ground after a bomb dropped and this quadcopter came down and hovered over me and shot me’,” Mamode said.
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About 300,000 children have fled from Lebanon to Syria in the past seven weeks to seek safety from the worsening conflict, only to arrive in a country where humanitarian needs have never been higher, Save the Children organisation said.
Many children are travelling alone, separated from parents or families, and are at risk of abuse, food shortages and illness as winter looms.
The UN estimates that approximately 60 per cent of the people being displaced from Lebanon to Syria are children and adolescents with many arriving in desperate need of medical care, shelter, food and water.
