Friday, August 22, 2014

Nine Children Killed in Gaza Since Wednesday's Renewal of Attacks

Nine children in two days.
At least 469 children have been killed and over 3,000 injured in Gaza since the start of the Israeli offensive, a senior UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) official said, adding that more than 370,000 Palestinian kids require “immediate psychosocial first aid.” The overall death toll in Gaza has exceeded 2,000 since Israel’s government launched operation Protective Edge on July 8.

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“There isn’t a single family in Gaza who hasn’t experienced personally death, injury, the loss of their home, extensive damage, displacement,” [chief of UNICEF’s Gaza field office, Pernilla] Ironside said.

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She stressed that while 373,000 Palestinian children are in need of “immediate psychosocial first aid,” UNICEF only has 50 psychologists and counselors on the ground in Gaza. Those specialists were able to reach just 3,000 children.

  RT
Sorry, all we’ve got are bombs.
Ironside estimated that it could take up to 18 years to rebuild the 17,000 housing units that were damaged in the conflict and in light of the ongoing blockade of the region limiting the movement of goods and people.
She’s just looking at it the wrong way. Once the Israelis exterminate the Gazans, they can have their bulldozers and settlers in the area in no time at all.

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