Burnt cradle. Stroller bloody. The children are crying.
The violent attacks by Hamas terrorists on Israel that began last week and Israel’s retaliatory bombing of Gaza have killed innocent people — hundreds of Israeli and Palestinian children.
Horrific images showing Israeli babies burned to death by terrorists and ghostly images of bloody cribs released by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can be seen online around the world alongside pictures of dead and injured Palestinian children, some carried in arms. bereaved relatives.
It is estimated that more than 700 children have been killed in Gaza and another 2,450 injured since the war began on October 7, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said on Saturday that Israeli airstrikes had killed at least 724 children.
A Palestinian child injured in an Israeli rocket attack is rushed to Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City Saturday. HAITHAM IMAD/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
Accurate figures for the number of children killed or injured in Israel when Hamas launched a surprise massacre of civilians on Oct. 7. was not immediately available but dozens of Israeli children were known to have been killed.
Documents reportedly taken of dead Hamas terrorists by the Israel Defense Forces show that Hamas specifically planned to target a primary school and youth center in the Israeli kibbutz Kfar Sa’ad, to “kill as many people as possible,” seize hostages and move them quickly to the Peninsula Gaza, NBC News reported on Friday.
“Most Israeli children are either killed or kidnapped,” a New York-based Jewish activist with knowledge of the situation told The Post. “I don’t remember seeing anything even anecdotes about Israeli children being taken to hospital. They were basically killed or kidnapped or abandoned.”
A Palestinian girl cries after an Israeli airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip.REUTERS A Palestinian woman and two young girls look distraught and scared after an Israeli airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip.REUTERS Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted this photo of a bloodied baby cradle saying “Hamas is worse than ISIS.” Benjamin Netanyahu / twitter A burning baby carriage is seen along with other personal belongings on the side of the road near the border with Gaza after several civilians were killed in an attack by Hamas.Getty Images
A dual Israeli-American citizen, 32-year-old gardener and peace activist Hayim Katsman, was killed by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Holit where he lived – but in doing so managed to save three lives, including two children, CNN reported.
Katsman shielded a neighbor, Avital Alajem, from a bullet with his body — and that neighbor was then marched by terrorists a mile away into Gaza, kidnapping another family’s 4-month-old baby and 4-year-old boy.
When they arrived in Gaza, the terrorists abandoned the three of them for some reason – and Alajem had the mind to escape and return to the kibbutz with the two small children.
A doctor examines a Palestinian girl who died in an Israeli bombardment in Deir al-Balah, southern Gaza Strip.AP A Palestinian doctor carries the body of a baby killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip at al-Aqsa hospital in Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip , Saturday, Oct. 14 2023.AP
“I think it’s cool,” her mother, Hannah Wacholder Katsman, told The Forward. “My father grew up in Poland. He survived the Holocaust with false papers. My mother was a refugee from Germany who left after Hitler came to power. It’s sad for me when my son dies hiding in the closet.”
In Gaza, where Netanyahu and President Joe Biden have warned of continued retaliation, Palestinian activists say their children are bearing the brunt of the tragedy.
A Palestinian mother wails as she gives her dead baby, who was swaddled in white after being killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza Thursday, a final kiss, just one of many videos that are almost too painful to watch.
Cars and strollers left at the scene of a rocket attack from Gaza over the weekend are pictured on a main road near the entrance to the Israeli kibbutz Kfar Aza on the border with the Gaza Strip, on October 10, 2023. AFP via Getty Images
“My four children eat one meal a day: a sandwich. There is no water, no electricity, no internet, no fuel in all of Gaza,” said Gaza-based Mohammad Abu Rukbeh of Defense for Children Palestine.
“I took my children on foot because they were too paralyzed with fear to walk while we were looking for a safe place. There is no safe place in Gaza as the Israeli army rains bombs in every direction, every hour of the day. We are isolated people facing the most ferocious war machine.”
By wire
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