Burned cribs, bloody strollers and tears: the tragedy of children on both sides of the war between Israel and Hamas

Burned cribs. Damn baby strollers. Children crying.

The savage attack by Hamas terrorists on Israel that began last week and the retaliatory Israeli bombing of Gaza have killed innocents: hundreds of Israeli and Palestinian children.

Heartbreaking images showing photographs of Israeli babies burned alive by terrorists and a disturbing image of a bloody crib posted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are visible online around the world along with photographs of dead and injured Palestinian children, some of them in arms. of grieving relatives.

More than 700 children are estimated to have been killed in Gaza and another 2,450 injured since the war began on October 7, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund.

Gaza’s Health Ministry said on Saturday that Israeli airstrikes had killed at least 724 children.

A Palestinian boy injured in an Israeli rocket attack is rushed to Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on Saturday. HAITHAM IMAD/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock

Exact figures for the number of children killed or injured in Israel when Hamas launched its surprise massacre of civilians on October 7 were not immediately available, but dozens of Israeli children are known to have been killed.

Documents allegedly recovered from Hamas terrorists killed by the Israel Defense Forces indicated that Hamas specifically planned to attack primary schools and a youth center in the Israeli kibbutz of Kfar Sa’ad, to “kill as many people as possible”, take hostages and move them quickly. in the Gaza Strip, NBC News reported on Friday.

“Most Israeli children were killed or kidnapped,” a New York-based Jewish activist with knowledge of the situation told the Post. “I don’t remember seeing anything, even anecdotal, about the transfer of Israeli children to the hospital. “They were basically killed, kidnapped or abandoned.”

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A Palestinian girl cries after Israeli airstrikes in the southern Gaza Strip.REUTERS A Palestinian woman and two girls appear upset and scared after an Israeli airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip.REUTERS The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted this photo of a bloodied man. crib that says “Hamas is worse than ISIS.” Benjamin Netanyahu/twitter A baby stroller is seen burned along with other personal belongings on the side of the road near the Gaza border after several civilians were killed in a Hamas attack.Getty Images

A dual Israeli-American citizen, Hayim Katsman, a 32-year-old gardener and peace activist, was killed by Hamas terrorists at Kibbutz Holit where he lived, but in doing so managed to save three lives, including two children, CNN reported.

Katsman protected a neighbor, Avital Alajem, from bullets with his body, and that neighbor was later taken by the terrorists a mile away to Gaza, kidnapping the four-month-old baby and four-year-old child from another family.

When they arrived in Gaza, the terrorists abandoned the three for some reason, and Alajem had the presence of mind to escape and return to the kibbutz with the two young children.

A doctor examines a Palestinian girl who died in an Israeli bombing in Deir al-Balah, southern Gaza Strip.AP A Palestinian doctor carries the body of a baby killed in Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip to the hospital al-Aqsa in Deir el -Balah, Gaza Strip, Saturday, October 14, 2023.AP

“I think it’s chilling,” his mother, Hannah Wacholder Katsman, told The Forward. “My father grew up in Poland. He survived the Holocaust with false documents. My mother was a refugee from Germany who left after Hitler came to power. “I find it chilling that my son died hiding in a closet.”

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In Gaza, where Netanyahu and President Joe Biden have warned of continued retaliation, Palestinian activists say their children are bearing the brunt of the tragedy.

A Palestinian mother’s cry as she gave a final kiss to her dead baby, wrapped in white after being killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza on Thursday, was just one of many videos almost too painful to watch.

Cars and a stroller abandoned at the site of a rocket attack from Gaza over the weekend appear on a main road near the entrance to the Israeli kibbutz of Kfar Aza, on the border with the Gaza Strip, on October 10, 2023. .AFP via fake images

“My four children eat one meal a day: sandwiches. There is no water, no electricity, no internet, no fuel in all of Gaza,” said Mohammad Abu Rukbeh of Gaza-based Defense for Palestinian Children.

“I take my children on foot because they are too paralyzed with fear to walk while we look for a safe place. There is no safe place in Gaza as Israeli forces drop bombs in all directions, at all hours of the day. “We are isolated people facing the most ferocious war machines.”

With cables

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