Unicef ​​chief: “Gaza is the most dangerous place in the world to be a child”

The Gaza Strip “It is today the most dangerous place in the world to be a child,” said today the executive director of the UN children’s agency (UNICEF)Catherine Russell.

Russel spoke today by videoconference before the UN Security Council, in a session specifically dedicated to the impact of the war on the women and children of Gaza and Israel.

The director, who has just returned from a trip to Loop from the one who has returned “horrified”detailed that in 46 days 5,300 Palestinian children have died in the bombings, which is equivalent to “more than 115 per day”accounting for 40% of the total deaths in Gaza.

All this, he added, without counting the 1,200 children who are believed to be still buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings and who cannot yet be counted as dead.

Furthermore, he warned about the future of the children who will survive this war: “They are going to see their lives irrevocably altered by repeated exposure to trauma; “The violence and seizures around them can induce toxic stress that will interfere with their physical and cognitive development.”and recalled that even before the war, more than half a million Gazan children were in need of psychological help.

The director of UN Woman, Sima Bahous, who highlighted the terrible situation of mothers who during war try above all to protect their children, and went so far as to say the following:

“The women of Loop who pray for peace, but if peace does not come, they pray for a quick death, while they sleep and with the children in their arms. It should embarrass us all that any mother should make such a sentence.”he expressed before the members of the Council.

“Excellencies, two mothers die violently in Gaza every hour, and seven women die every hour. “We mourn them,” he remembered.