UNRWA coordinates almost all help to Gaza. (File)
Geneva:
Ten youngsters per day are shedding one or each of their legs within the struggle in Gaza, the top of the UN company supporting Palestinian refugees mentioned Tuesday.
“Principally we’ve got every single day 10 youngsters who’re shedding one leg or two legs on common,” UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini informed reporters in Geneva.
Citing figures from the UN youngsters’s company UNICEF, he mentioned that determine “doesn’t even embrace the arms and the palms, and we’ve got many extra” of those.
“Ten per day, which means round 2,000 youngsters after the greater than 260 days of this brutal struggle,” Lazzarini mentioned.
He mentioned amputation typically takes place “in fairly horrible circumstances”, typically with out anaesthesia.
Save the Kids mentioned on Monday that as much as 21,000 youngsters are estimated to be lacking within the chaos of the struggle.
The Gaza Well being ministry says at the very least 37,658 individuals have been killed in Israel’s retaliatory offensive following Hamas’s October 7 assault on southern Israel.
That assault resulted within the deaths of 1,195 individuals, principally civilians, in line with an AFP tally based mostly on Israeli official figures.
Palestinian operatives additionally took 251 individuals hostage within the assault, 116 of whom stay captive within the Gaza Strip, in line with Israel. The military says 42 of these are lifeless.
UNRWA coordinates almost all help to Gaza, however Lazzarini warned the company was dealing with relentless assault and a deep funding disaster.
“We have now money till finish of August,” he mentioned Tuesday, including that the company nonetheless had “a shortfall of about $140 million… to bridge the tip of the 12 months”.
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