Some Palestinian parents have taken the heartbreaking step of writing their children’s names on their legs so they can be easily identified in case of death, according to a report on Sunday, as the death toll in Gaza rose to 4,741.
More than 265 people were killed in a recent 24-hour period in Gaza alone, including 117 children, the Hamas-controlled Palestinian Health Ministry said on Sunday.
In total, 1,873 children have been reported killed in the region since Israel began its airstrike on the densely populated disputed territory after a coordinated Hamas terrorist attack killed more than 1,400 Israelis on Oct. 7, the ministry said. ministry.
As the crisis in the war-torn region continues to escalate, a growing number of Gaza parents have begun writing their children’s names on the bottom of their little ones’ legs to identify them if they are killed, reported CNN on Sunday.
A toddler and three children who were killed in airstrikes overnight and taken to a packed morgue at Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza had their names written in Arabic on their calves, footage from chain.
A doctor treats a Palestinian child injured in the bombing of Deir al-Balah on October 14.ZUMAPRESS.com
The desperate practice of writing children’s names on their bodies has been increasingly common as Gaza hospitals are overwhelmed by the influx of patients and bodies, according to the report.
Gaza health officials also warned that the war has worsened access to hospitals in the densely populated strip.
The territory’s main hospital, Al-Shifa, said on Sunday it was forced to reduce dialysis sessions for hundreds of kidney patients, while warning that electricity and fuel shortages caused by the Israeli blockade “will lead to a large humanitarian catastrophe, especially for patients with kidney failure.”
The development came even after a convoy of 20 trucks brought vital medical supplies and some food to the narrow 45-kilometre-long territory through Egypt on Saturday, the first time humanitarian aid was allowed into the region since that the conflict broke out.
A baby injured in heavy Israeli shelling in the Gaza Strip receives treatment at a hospital in Deir Al-Balah on Saturday.ZUMAPRESS.com
Around 1.4 million people, or 60% of Gaza’s population, have been displaced as Israel continues to unleash its airstrikes on Hamas targets, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs estimated on Friday. Around 15,898 people were injured in the attacks, Gaza’s Health Ministry said.
In the West Bank, northeast of the Gaza Strip, more than 90 Palestinians had been killed in the past two weeks as Israeli troops attacked terrorists there.
Six Palestinians were killed in two separate attacks on Sunday, two of them killed in an airstrike on a mosque in the Jenin refugee camp that Israel said was linked to terrorists.
Attendees at a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Istanbul, Turkey, on October 21.ZUMAPRESS.com A young Iranian woman carried by her father holds her painted hand that symbolizes the blood of Palestinian children, in central Tehran, on October 20 .Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto /Shutterstock
Israel has rarely deployed airstrikes on the territory, even as it launched continuous bombings on Gaza. The escalation of violence in the West Bank threatened to open another front in the two-week war. The territory controlled by Israel and administered in part by the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority.
According to Israel, some 700 suspects have been detained in the West Bank since the war broke out, including 480 Hamas members.
–With pole cables
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