Gaza, A Real-World Embodiment of Hell on Earth For its One Million Children - Shawesh

From Aviashima Toom, Abuja 

SAHEL ReportersNews: The Palestinian Ambassador to the Embassy of the State of Palestine, Abdullah M. Abu Shawesh, has described Gaza as a world embodiment of hell on earth for it's one million children.

Shewesh stated this on Thursday  while briefing newsmen in Abuja on the ongoing US - Israeli genocide in Gaza.

He noted that the situation is getting worse day-by-day, as they see the horrific impact of the daily airstrikes and military operations on Palestinian children. Adding that Gaza has become home to the largest cohort of child amputees in modern history.

Shawesh also said that, the smell of death is everywhere as bodies are left lying on the roads or under the rubbles. Adding that in northern Gaza, people are just waiting to die.feeling deserted, hopeless and alone.

According to him, the south is desperately overcrowded, and lethally lacks essential water, sanitation and shelter, wondering where the children and their families go. "They are not safe in schools and shelters. They are not safe in hospitals. And they are certainly not safe in overcrowded camp sites. 

"Perhaps the darkest irony is once again forcibly displacing families into these so called ‘humanitarian zones’ is that beyond their lack of food, water and medicine, they too have been bombed, an extensive pattern of unlawful, discriminatory and disproportionate restrictions and repression of freedom of expression, primarily of Palestinian activists and their supporters." Shawesh said.

The Palestinian ambassador earlier noted that, today marks the 384th day of US-Israeli heinous, malicious, and vindictive genocide, where 42,603 registered martyrs, out of whom 17,000 children, 171 infants, 786 were less than one-year-old, 37 died of hunger, 11,673 women, 1,047 medical staff, 85 civil defense personnel, 177 journalists.

He addedthat 520 bodies were recovered from 7 mass graves inside hospitals, and 10,000 still missing.100,282 wounded arrived at hospitals,

12,000 wounded need to travel abroad for medical treatments, 12,500 cancer patients face death due to the lack of appropriate treatments, 396 media correspondents. 35,055 children living without their parents or without one of them, 71,338 viral hepatitis cases diagnosed due to displacement. 5,000 detainees, 310 medical staff among the three doctors who were assassinated, and 193 shelters targeted. 

He informed that, in the occupied West Bank, the number of detainees has reached 11,400, including 9,392 administrative detainees, 129 journalists, 58 of whom are still under arrest,  750 children, and 430 women. Adding that thousands of detainees from Gaza and forcibly disappeared individuals are languishing in the occupation prisons and concentration camp without any information about them.

"This trend did not emerge with the Israeli assault on Gaza but has become more widespread in the past year, from the targeted killing of journalists in Gaza to the banning of Palestinian protests, speech and symbols in various countries, especially in North America and Europe” 

He maintained that silence is required when children sleep, not when they are slaughtered like sheep right in front of the world's eyes.Silence is complicity.