Some Palestinian parents have taken the heartbreaking step of writing their children’s names on their feet so they can be easily identified if they are killed, a report said Sunday — as the death toll in Gaza rose to 4,741.
More than 265 people were killed in a recent 24-hour period in Gaza alone, including 117 children, the Palestinian Ministry of Health, which is controlled by Hamas, said on Sunday.
In total, a reported 1,873 children have been killed in the region since Israel began airstrikes on the densely populated disputed territory after a coordinated Hamas terror attack killed more than 1,400 Israelis on Oct. 7, the ministry said.
As the crisis in the war-torn region continues to escalate, more Gazan parents have written their children’s names on their children’s lower legs to identify them if they are killed, CNN reported Sunday.
A child and three children killed in an overnight airstrike and taken to a full morgue at Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza had their names written in Arabic on their calves, footage from the network showed.
A doctor attends to a Palestinian child injured in the bombing of Deir al-Balah on Oct. 14.ZUMAPRESS.com
The desperate practice of writing children’s names on their bodies is becoming more common as hospitals in Gaza are overwhelmed by an influx of patients and corpses, according to the report.
Gaza health officials also warned that the war has worsened access to hospitals in the densely populated strip.
The province’s main hospital, Al-Shifa, said Sunday that it had been forced to cut dialysis sessions for hundreds of kidney patients, warning that the lack of electricity and fuel caused by the Israeli blockade “will lead to a huge humanitarian catastrophe, especially for patients who have kidney failure.”
The development came even as a convoy of 20 trucks brought life-saving medical supplies and some food into the narrow 28-mile region through Egypt on Saturday — the first time humanitarian aid had been allowed into the region since the conflict erupted.
An infant injured in the ongoing heavy Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip was treated at a hospital in Deir Al-Balah on Saturday.ZUMAPRESS.com
Some 1.4 million people, or 60% of Gaza’s population, have been displaced as Israel continues its airstrikes on Hamas targets, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs on Friday. Some 15,898 were injured in the attack, Gaza’s health ministry said.
In the West Bank northeast of the Gaza strip, more than 90 Palestinians have been killed in the past two weeks as Israeli forces target terrorists there.
Six Palestinians were killed in two separate attacks Sunday, two of them killed in an airstrike on a mosque in the Jenin refugee camp that Israel said was linked to terrorists.
Israel rarely launches airstrikes in the region despite its ongoing attacks on Gaza. The escalating violence in the West Bank threatens to open another front to the two-week war. Territory controlled by Israel and partially administered by the Fatah-run Palestinian Authority.
About 700 suspects have been detained in the West Bank since the war broke out, including 480 Hamas members, according to Israel.
–By Postal Wire
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