A generation of amputee children This is what the Israeli bombings on Gaza are leaving behind. This is the case of Noor Marouf, who is only 11 years old. He has lost his left leg in a bombing in Jabalia. Lying on a hospital stretcher, she tells how much her wound hurts. “I want to go to the Emirates to get treatment because I’m afraid of losing my other leg,” she says, worried.

She is seriously injured and now her right leg may have to be amputated, where a heavy metal bar and four screws are drilled into the bone. Young patients like Noor will have to travel abroad to receive a prosthesis and long-term treatment. Additionally, experts say, children with war-related amputations will need up to a dozen surgeries on that limb by the time they reach adulthood because the bone continues to grow.

This is also the case of Eman Al Kholy, another girl from a Gazan hospital. In addition to losing her leg, she has also lost both of her parents in an Israeli attack. Now it is a foster mother who takes care of them: “The girls are always saying ‘mom’, ‘dad’ and the only thing I can tell them is that they are not there, that their parents have died,” Amany laments through tears.

They are the victims of massive bombings on civil infrastructure that do not discriminate between victims. Today marks 90 days of attacks. The Israeli army has launched more than 45,000 bombs and missiles, worse than in Hiroshima, because they are equivalent to three atomic bombs.

Jesús Núñez, co-director of the Institute for Conflict Studies and Humanitarian Action (IECAH), points out that, after the attack and elimination of Hamas’ number two, Israel has demonstrated that when it wants to kill someone it has the technological capacity and means to do so without causing damage. to the civilian population and says: “What is happening in Gaza makes it clear to us that their priority is not only to eliminate Hamas but to massacre the civilian population to provoke, what everyone understands to be, a genocide.

This attack on Hamas member in Beirut has led to an increase in hostility on the Israeli border with Lebanon, which is experiencing its greatest tension since the war between Hezbollah and Israel in 2006. For the moment, there is no end to the conflict in sight. Egypt has frozen its role as mediator and Israel has already said it does not expect the war to end this year.

It seems that they will continue adding deaths to a list that already exceeds 22,500, without adding the 7,000 missing people trapped under the rubble.