A little girl walks along a dirty and bombed-out road in the center of the Gaza Strip. The feet are barefoot, the body thin and the hair disheveled. On her shoulders she carries a small child with a cast on his foot. – I’m tired. I have drilled her for an hour. She can’t walk, says the poor girl exhausted. Strong meeting It was the Palestinian freelance journalist Alaa Hamouda who spotted the pair of siblings along the road. – I saw the girls from afar and felt bad for them. One carried the other, barefoot under the scorching sun. It is difficult to see children like this, he says to news. The journalist went on to say that the girls had left al-Aqsa hospital, where the youngest man was being treated after being hit by a car. Mother left in advance to cook for the family and asked the two girls to go home to the refugee camp alone. Facts about the film clip news has examined the clip, and it has been geolocated to just outside the Al-Bureij refugee camp. news has not found any publications of the clip dated before 21 October. Sky News and Al Jazeera have published the same clip and credited the same freelance journalist Alaa Hamouda. Hamouda found out that he had to help them, and gave them a lift the last two kilometers to Bureij. – I act on instinct and charity, he says. According to the journalist, the girls have fled from Jabalia in northern Gaza. He says that the youngest girl’s name is Samia and she is five years old. The eldest sister is Kamar, who is seven. The video has been viewed several million times on various social media. On Tuesday, Hamouda visited the sisters in the refugee camp to see how they were doing. Lost childhood Save the Children is concerned about the situation on the ground and can report a lost childhood. – Childhood is completely shattered. Our employees in Gaza tell about orphaned children. Children who become the main breadwinners in their own families and have to take care of younger siblings, despairs international manager Nora Ingdal. The acts of war have driven the smallest and most vulnerable to flight. These children are internally displaced and live in tents in Deir al-Balah. Photo: Abdel Kareem Hana / AP So far over 100,000 have been injured in the hostilities. According to Save the Children, a large part of these are children. About ten children lose at least one limb every day and several thousand young people will need medical follow-up for the rest of their lives as a result of serious injuries, the aid organization states. International director Nora Ingdal at Save the Children says the children in Gaza become like little machines, where all they think about is survival. Photo: Nora Lie/Save the Children – Lack of physical needs such as food and clean water makes the children severely malnourished. The body stops growing and the brain stops developing, says Ingdal. In addition, she points to the “invisible” damage caused by war. – These children are exposed to extreme psychological stress on a daily basis. They have feared for their lives for over a year now. A constant fear set the body on alert. The nervous system is destroyed because they are in survival mode, she says. The war takes its toll on the little ones. This girl was injured during an Israeli attack on the Jabalia refugee camp in the center of the Gaza Strip this week. Photo: OMAR AL-QATTAA / AFP Over 13,000 children have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the war broke out on 7 October last year, according to figures from the UN. – Children endure quite a lot if something is temporary and passes. But now they see no end to it all, and no longer believe in recovery. They are despondent and lack hope. If you take away people’s hope, you have nothing to do, she despairs. news has been in contact with the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). In an e-mail to news, they write that they follow international law and take “precautions to limit civil losses”. – The IDF’s attacks on military targets are subject to relevant provisions in international law, including taking reasonable precautions and after an assessment that the expected accidental damage to civilians and civilian property is not unreasonable in relation to the expected military advantage of the attack, writes the IDF. A family on the run from the bombs in the north on Tuesday 22 October. Photo: OMAR AL-QATTAA / AFP Worst in the north Recently, Israel has stepped up its attacks in northern Gaza and a few weeks ago started a new offensive against Hamas, which is waging a guerrilla war in the area. The Israeli Defense Forces published a drone video on Tuesday of what they refer to as civilians evacuating from the north. The news agency Reuters has geolocated the video of Jabalia, but is not sure when it was filmed. In the video, one sees hundreds of civilian men, women and children walking close together. Palestinians refer to the incident as forced displacement. A boy walks through the Bureij refugee camp after an Israeli airstrike on 8 October. Photo: EYAD BABA / AFP UN warns A recent report from the UN Development Program (UNDP) states that the war between Israel and Hamas has sent the quality of life in Gaza back to the 1950s. – Palestine is experiencing setbacks that they have never experienced before. In Gaza, the development is estimated to have been seen back 70 years, to 1955, said Chitose Noguchi at a press conference on Monday. UNDP measures quality of life using factors such as health and education. In addition, they point out that the Palestinian economy is in shambles and almost the entire population lives in poverty. Children flee from the Bureij refugee camp this summer. Photo: EYAD BABA / AFP The economy in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank has shrunk by 35 percent in the past year, according to the UNDP. On some standards, the poverty level in Gaza now approaches 100 percent and four out of five residents are unemployed, figures from the report show. Published 23.10.2024, at 20.10 Updated 23.10.2024, at 20.12
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