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22.05.2025 - 18:21 [ United Nations ]

All eyes on Gaza as aid teams retrieve first lifesaving relief in months

According to the UN World Health Organization (WHO) at least 57 children have reportedly died from the effects of malnutrition, according to the local health authorities. The number is likely an underestimate and is expected to increase if the aid blockade continues.

In their latest report, respected and UN-partnered food insecurity experts warned that nearly 71 000 children under the age of five are expected to be acutely malnourished over the next 11 months unless Gazans can access sufficient food and healthcare support.

22.05.2025 - 16:42 [ Reuters ]

Palestinian minister reports 29 starvation-related deaths among Gazan children, elderly

„In the last couple of days we lost 29 children,“ Palestinian Health Minister Majed Abu Ramadan told reporters, describing them as „starvation-related deaths“. He later clarified that the total included elderly people as well as children.

19.05.2025 - 11:25 [ Associated Press ]

Aid workers feel helpless as Israel’s blockade pushes Gaza towards famine

Some 170,000 metric tons of aid, including food, sits in trucks a few miles away, just inside Israel.

19.05.2025 - 11:21 [ Al Jazeera ]

‘A skeleton covered in skin’: Aid workers on Gaza’s malnourished children

Nutritionist Rana Soboh says she has been pushed to her wits’ end after seeing two extreme malnutrition cases in Gaza, which is on the brink of famine due to Israel’s aid blockade.

The first was a woman who was rushed to an emergency room after fainting while she breastfed her newborn, who had not eaten for days, the humanitarian worker with MedGlobal told the Associated Press news agency.

17.05.2025 - 13:33 [ Middle East Eye ]

‘Elderly child’: Trauma of Israeli bombing turns Gaza girl’s hair grey

Vitiligo is a chronic autoimmune disorder that causes patches of skin to lose pigment or colour.

“She was terrified and trembling. It was a severe panic attack,” her father, Khalil al-Sharif, told Middle East Eye from the makeshift tent where the family now lives in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.

“We took her to hospital and she stayed there for a full day. She was shaking throughout the night, even after the bombing had stopped,” he recalled.

“Two days after we returned home, two white spots appeared on her face.”

Even before the current war, nine out of ten children in Gaza were already suffering from some form of conflict-related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), largely the result of repeated Israeli military assaults.

In June 2024, UNICEF estimated that nearly all of Gaza’s 1.2 million children are in need of mental health and psychological support.

17.05.2025 - 13:03 [ United Nations Children‘s Fund (UNICEF) ]

Statement by UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, Edouard Beigbeder, on the killing of at least 45 children in the Gaza Strip

(May 16, 2025)

“The reported killing of at least 45 children in the Gaza Strip in the last two days is yet another devastating reminder that children in Gaza are suffering first and foremost, having to starve day after day only to be victims of indiscriminate attacks.

13.05.2025 - 15:46 [ +972 Magazine ]

‘She’s dying in front of my eyes’: The Gazan children starving under Israeli siege

For a little over two months, Israel has prevented all food, goods, and medical supplies from entering the Gaza Strip. The consequences have been catastrophic: According to Gaza’s Government Media Office, over 70,000 children are now hospitalized with acute malnutrition, and 1.1 million lack the daily minimum nutritional requirements for survival.

The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza reported that, as of May 5, at least 57 children have already died from malnutrition-related health complications since the start of the war, and another 3,500 under the age of five face imminent risk of death from starvation.

06.05.2025 - 10:07 [ Ahmed Alnaouq, Pam Bailey / Penguin.co.uk ]

We Are Not Numbers

A teenage girl stares at her roof, hoping it won’t collapse over her head. A young student searches the Internet for photos of libraries around the world, hoping he’ll be able to visit them one day. Another walks around the city, taking notes of all the buildings she dreams of repairing.

These are the stories of young people from Gaza, born under Israeli occupation and blockade. They are people who have endured unspeakable struggles and losses, who keep fighting to be recognised not as numbers, but as human beings with hopes, dreams and lives worth living.

We Are Not Numbers was founded in 2014 to give voice to the youth of Gaza. In this collection, vital, urgent and full of heart, spanning over ten years to the present moment, we gain an unparalleled insight into the past, as well as the current and next generation of Palestinian leaders, artists, scientists and scholars and imagine where we might go from here.

06.05.2025 - 10:04 [ Middle East Eye ]

We are Not Numbers: The Voices of Gaza’s Youth

“I want the world to know that Palestine has writers, artists, thinkers and, most importantly, lovers. I want the world to know that we are humans just like you.” So writes Anas Jnena in one of the many poignant stories featured in this important and timely collection.

The voices of Gaza’s youth have been palpably missing in the ongoing war.

They have been reduced to grim statistics by a media overwhelmed by the brutality of the ongoing genocide that has claimed the lives of more than 52,000 Palestinians to date.

22.04.2025 - 01:36 [ Communist Party of Israel ]

Police Tell Anti-War Protesters: ‘No Photos of Killed Gazan Children’

Israel Police barred protest organizers from holding photos of killed Gazan children or using the words “genocide,” or “massacre” despite prior assurances to the High Court that it would allow “controversial” signs. Cops conditioned approval for an anti-war protest this coming Thursday in Tel Aviv on the requirement that “no images of children or babies from Gaza” be displayed. This despite the exhibition of hundreds of photos of killed Palestinians children in Gaza during the protests held Saturday night in Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa and Friday afternoon in Jaffa at a demonstration against war and occupation sponsored by Hadash.

22.01.2025 - 20:13 [ Tagesschau.de ]

Zwei Tote in Aschaffenburg: Entsetzen nach Angriff auf Kindergartengruppe

Der Angreifer habe sich in psychiatrischer Behandlung befunden, sagte Herrmann. Er sei in der Vergangenheit mindestens dreimal wegen Gewalttaten aufgefallen, jeweils in psychiatrische Behandlung gekommen und wieder entlassen worden. Im Dezember sei seine Betreuung angeordnet worden.

Nach Deutschland eingereist sei der Mann Mitte November 2022. Vor rund anderthalb Monaten habe er seine freiwillige Ausreise schriftlich angekündigt. Sein Asylverfahren sei daraufhin abgeschlossen worden.

30.11.2024 - 00:31 [ Save The Children ]

Northern Gaza: 130,000 children under 10 deprived of food and medicine during 50 days of siege

GAZA, 25 November 2024 – About 130,000 children aged under 10 have been trapped for 50 days in areas in northern Gaza that are almost entirely inaccessible to aid workers and not receiving food or medical supplies despite warnings of famine, said Save the Children [1].

Children living in North Gaza and Gaza governates have been almost completely cut off from supplies of food, water, and medicine since 6 October 2024 when Israeli forces declared the area to be a closed military zone, with the independent Famine Review Committee (FRC) saying that famine is either imminent or likely already occurring in the area [2].

The UN also warned nearly a month ago that the entire population of North Gaza governorate was at risk of dying yet attempts by aid groups to access the area have been repeatedly denied by Israeli forces.

28.11.2024 - 12:25 [ Associated Press ]

White House pressing Ukraine to draft 18-year-olds so it has enough troops to battle Russia

(November 28, 2024)

A senior Biden administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the private consultations, said Wednesday that the outgoing Democratic administration wants Ukraine to lower the mobilization age to 18 from the current age of 25 to expand the pool of fighting-age men available to help a badly outnumbered Ukraine in its nearly three-year-old war with Russia.

The official said “the pure math” of Ukraine’s situation now is that it needs more troops in the fight

28.11.2024 - 12:21 [ Antiwar.com ]

White House Pressing Ukraine To Draft 18-Year-Olds for War

(November 27, 2024)

National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan recently hinted that the US was pressuring Ukraine to expand conscription, saying Ukraine’s biggest problem in the war was the lack of manpower.

“Our view has been that there’s not one weapon system that makes a difference in this battle. It’s about manpower, and Ukraine needs to do more, in our view, to firm up its lines in terms of the number of forces it has on the front lines,” Sullivan said on PBS News Hour last week.

16.11.2024 - 11:35 [ TRTdeutsch.com ]

Libanon: Bisher 220 Minderjährige bei Angriffen Israels getötet

Insgesamt sind den Angaben zufolge im Libanon durch israelische Angriffe 3.386 Menschen getötet und 14.417 verletzt worden. Unter den Todesopfern waren demnach auch 658 Frauen.

13.11.2024 - 12:20 [ Middle East Eye ]

Israeli drones shooting children in Gaza deliberately ‚day after day‘, UK surgeon tells MPs

A retired NHS surgeon who recently returned from working at a hospital in Gaza said he treated children „day after day after day“ who had been deliberately targeted by Israeli drones following bomb attacks.

In harrowing testimony to British MPs on Tuesday, Nizam Mamode said of all the conflicts he had worked in, including the genocide in Rwanda, he and other experienced colleagues in Gaza had „never seen anything on this scale ever“.

He said at least once or twice daily, there were „mass casualty incidents,“ meaning that 10 to 20 people were killed and up to 40 seriously injured. He estimated that at least 60 percent of the people treated at these times were women and children.

09.11.2024 - 00:20 [ Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights ]

Six-month update report on the human rights situation in Gaza: 1 November 2023 to 30 April 2024

I. INTRODUCTION
1. This report presents grave concerns regarding the human rights situation in occupied Gaza since the last report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to the UN Human Rights Council, and covers a period of six months, from 1 November 2023, when the last Human Rights Council report covered the events on the ground,1 up to 30 April 2024.2 The report is based on monitoring and documentation by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). The High Commissioner has asked Israel for access to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) in order to investigate human rights violations on and since 7 October 2023, pursuant to its mandate, which so far has not been granted.

09.11.2024 - 00:05 [ France24.com ]

Nearly 70 percent of people killed in Gaza women and children, UN finds

The majority of civilians killed in the Gaza Strip have been women and children, a UN report found Friday. The UN also found that 80 percent of all verified deaths in Gaza had occurred in Israeli attacks on residential buildings or similar housing, and that children aged five to nine made up the largest group of victims.
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The report also tackled the contentious issue of the proportion of civilians among the nearly 43,500 people killed in Gaza so far, according to the health ministry in the Palestinian territory.

25.10.2024 - 11:40 [ Middle East Eye ]

Israel attacks north Gaza‘s only working hospital, killing children in ICU

Israeli forces stormed the last operational hospital in besieged northern Gaza on Friday after bombing it and killing children inside, according to doctors and media reports.

The attack on the Kamal Adwan hospital, located in Beit Lahia northwest of Jabalia, was launched around 2am local time, shortly after a World Health Organisation delegation left the hospital.

19.10.2024 - 20:06 [ United Nations Children‘s Fund (UNICEF) ]

Gaza‘s children: „Trapped in a cycle of pain“

GENEVA, 18 October 2024 -“Gaza is the real-world embodiment of hell on earth for its one million children. And it’s getting worse, day-by-day, as we see the horrific impact of the daily airstrikes and military operations on Palestinian children.

“Let me try and share what that looks like, via one child: A seven-year-old little girl, Qamar. During an attack on Jabalia camp, Qamar was struck in the foot. The only hospital she could be taken to – a maternity hospital – was then under siege for 20 days, by which time the shrapnel in Qamar’s foot had led to infection. Because she couldn’t be moved, and because the hospital didn’t have the resources to cope with all the trauma cases, doctors had to amputate Qamar’s leg……

20.09.2024 - 05:32 [ CubaSi.cu ]

Israel violating global child rights treaty in Gaza, UN body rules

Israel‘s delegation argued in a series of UN hearings earlier this month that the treaty did not apply in Gaza or the occupied West Bank and claimed that it was committed to respecting international humanitarian law.

The four-member UN Committee monitors countries‘ compliance with the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child – a widely adopted treaty that protects under 18s from violence and other abuses.

20.09.2024 - 04:42 [ Reuters ]

Israel violated global child rights treaty in Gaza, UN committee says

Of those killed in Gaza, at least 11,355 are children, Palestinian data shows, and thousands more are injured.
„The outrageous death of children is almost historically unique. This is an extremely dark place in history,“ Bragi Gudbrandsson, vice chair of the committee, told reporters.

20.09.2024 - 00:10 [ Middle East Eye ]

Israeli killings of Palestinian children unprecedented, says UN committee

„The outrageous death of children is almost historically unique. This is an extremely dark place in history,“ Bragi Gudbrandsson, vice chair of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC), told reporters.

„I don‘t think we have seen before a violation that is so massive as we’ve seen in Gaza. These are extremely grave violations that we do not often see.“

The CRC, which monitors compliance of state parties to the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, on Thursday released its findings on six state parties to the treaty, including Israel, after a review during its latest session.

18.09.2024 - 13:19 [ Middle East Eye ]

Lebanon mourns the loss of leading novelist Elias Khoury

“Never in my life have I felt that life gives you more than you deserve more than at that moment, where literature transforms into reality,” Khoury said in an interview at the time.

Khoury’s well-known love for Palestine meant even more to Itani when he was falsely accused of collaborating with Israel in Lebanon in 2017.

At the time, Khoury wrote a fierce piece defending Itani, and expressed his disgust towards those pursuing him.

When Itani went to thank Khoury, the latter told him, “Are you serious? I raised you!”

25.04.2024 - 07:55 [ Xinhua ]

Junge Deutsche unzufrieden mit Politik und sozioökonomischer Entwicklung: Erhebung

Zwei von drei jungen Deutschen zwischen 14 und 29 Jahren sind besorgt über die Verbraucherpreise, die in den letzten Jahren stark gestiegen sind. Etwa die Hälfte macht sich Sorgen um teuren Wohnraum und hat Angst vor Altersarmut, so die Trendstudie „Jugend in Deutschland“.

„Die Aussicht auf ein gutes Leben schwindet“, sagte Simon Schnetzer, Autor und Herausgeber der Umfrage unter 2.042 Personen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen „eine tiefsitzende mentale Verunsicherung mit Verlust des Vertrauens in die Beeinflussbarkeit der persönlichen und gesellschaftlichen Lebensbedingungen“, betonte er.

21.04.2024 - 06:50 [ Flughafen-berlin-kosten.de ]

Flughafen Berlin (BER) Kosten

Wieviel der neue Berliner Flughafen (BER) den Steuerzahler bis zur Eröffnung gekostet hat
7.079.900.000 Euro

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≈ umgerechnet…

8.697.665 Kita-Plätze

21.04.2024 - 06:26 [ Tagesschau.de ]

Wahl für neue Berliner SPD-Parteispitze: Landeschef Saleh ist aus dem Rennen

Saleh hat die Politik der SPD in den vergangenen Jahren maßgeblich gestaltet und die Partei auch in das schwarz-rote Bündnis geführt.

Die SPD-Mitglieder hätten gegen eine „Weiter so“ entschieden, kommentierte Hikel das Ergebnis am Samstag. Das Ergebnis sei ein Einschnitt und bringe die Partei in eine „neue Ära der Sozialdemokratie“. Ähnlich äußerte sich seine Co-Bewerberin Böcker-Giannini, die an die Einigkeit der Partei appellierte. (…)

So stellten Hikel und Böcker-Giannini etwa das kostenlose Kita-Essen für alle Kinder infrage, Niroomand und Bertels sprachen sich hier gegen Änderungen aus.

20.04.2024 - 18:35 [ Middle East Eye ]

In photos: Aftermath of deadly Israeli strikes in Rafah

Israeli fighter jets have bombed two homes in Rafah in overnight strikes, killing a total of 10 people, including six children and women.

20.04.2024 - 18:22 [ Gazette.com ]

An Israeli airstrike in Gaza‘s south kills at least 9 Palestinians in Rafah, including 6 children

(today)

An Israeli airstrike on a house in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah killed at least nine people, six of them children, hospital authorities said Saturday, as Israel pursued its nearly seven-month offensive in the besieged Palestinian territory.

16.03.2024 - 19:15 [ Middle East Eye ]

A third of children under two in northern Gaza are acutely malnourished, says UN

„Children‘s malnutrition is spreading fast and reaching unprecedented levels in Gaza. Famine is looming. There is no time to waste,“ Unrwa said in a social media post on Saturday.

In recent days, several children have died in Gaza of malnutrition and dehydration.

01.03.2024 - 06:35 [ Medical Aid for Palestinians / Twitter ]

„This is the fastest decline in a population‘s nutrition status ever recorded. That means children are being starved at the fastest rate the world has ever seen.“ @melanie_ward speaks with @IsaCNN about the catastrophic levels of hunger that Israel‘s blockade is causing in Gaza

28.02.2024 - 22:47 [ Middle East Eye ]

Four children die of dehydration, malnutrition at Gaza hospital, says health ministry

The administration of the Kamal Adwan hospital announced earlier that they were halting operations as the facility had run out of fuel.

25.02.2024 - 02:00 [ Middle East Eye ]

Sexual abuse and beatings: A Palestinian mother‘s ordeal in Israeli custody

The group of women spent 11 days in this facility, during which Hussain was taken for interrogation twice, an experience no less traumatising.

„They asked me many questions about my family, my husband and my siblings,“ Hussain recalled.

„The soldiers kept threatening to hurt my children, shouting at me that if I don‘t tell the truth, they will torture and kill my kids.

„They kept asking about my brothers and sisters. One of my brothers is a lawyer and two others are professors and one is a doctor and one barber. They are working people, they have no connection to anything else. They kept insisting that they were ‚activists‘, and when I asked what they meant, they said I knew the answer.

„During the interrogations, they tied me to a chair and a female soldier stood next to me, kicking me and shoving me with her weapon to answer properly.

„They also asked about my social media accounts and I told them I only had Facebook. They threatened they would keep watching me on it.“

After suffering in this undisclosed detention facility for 11 days, Hussain was then moved again, this time to a prison…….

25.02.2024 - 01:46 [ Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights ]

Israel/oPt: UN experts appalled by reported human rights violations against Palestinian women and girls

(19.02.2024)

Palestinian women and girls have reportedly been arbitrarily executed in Gaza, often together with family members, including their children, according to information received. “We are shocked by reports of the deliberate targeting and extrajudicial killing of Palestinian women and children in places where they sought refuge, or while fleeing. Some of them were reportedly holding white pieces of cloth when they were killed by the Israeli army or affiliated forces,” the experts said.

The experts expressed serious concern about the arbitrary detention of hundreds of Palestinian women and girls, including human rights defenders, journalists and humanitarian workers, in Gaza and the West Bank since 7 October. Many have reportedly been subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment, denied menstruation pads, food and medicine, and severely beaten. On at least one occasion, Palestinian women detained in Gaza were allegedly kept in a cage in the rain and cold, without food.

“We are particularly distressed by reports that Palestinian women and girls in detention have also been subjected to multiple forms of sexual assault, such as being stripped naked and searched by male Israeli army officers. At least two female Palestinian detainees were reportedly raped while others were reportedly threatened with rape and sexual violence,” the experts said. They also noted that photos of female detainees in degrading circumstances were also reportedly taken by the Israeli army and uploaded online.

17.02.2024 - 22:27 [ Trita Parsi / Twitter ]

According to a US doctor in Gaza, Israeli snipers are executing Palestinian children with single shots to their heads. Biden‘s response is to ACTIVELY PREVENT other countries from seeking to stop Israel‘s massacre.

17.02.2024 - 22:17 [ Irfan Galaria / LA Times ]

Opinion: I’m an American doctor who went to Gaza. What I saw wasn’t war — it was annihilation

I stopped keeping track of how many new orphans I had operated on. After surgery they would be filed somewhere in the hospital, I’m unsure of who will take care of them or how they will survive. On one occasion, a handful of children, all about ages 5 to 8, were carried to the emergency room by their parents. All had single sniper shots to the head.

17.02.2024 - 10:32 [ Middle East Eye ]

State Department ‘discrimination’ traps relatives of Palestinian Americans in Gaza

„The most annoying thing is when they start talking about how they are against the displacement of people. It means that in that context, you are okay with them dying. Because if they are not displaced right now, they can die at any minute,“ Dawoud said.

The current process for getting the families of US citizens as well as legal permanent residents out of Gaza begins with those individuals applying to the State Department on their relatives‘ behalf by using an online crisis intake form.

The State Department then reviews that form, and if approved, it sends that list to Egypt and Israel for further review.

Once that review is completed and approved, the list is sent over to Palestinian authorities in Gaza, who publish a daily list of the individuals approved to leave via the Rafah border crossing.

22.01.2024 - 14:20 [ United Nations ]

Gaza crisis: Babies being born ‘into hell’ amid desperate aid shortages

(19.01.2024)

“Mothers face unimaginable challenges in accessing adequate medical care, nutrition and protection before, during and after giving birth,” said UNICEF Communications Specialist Tess Ingram.

“Becoming a mother should be a time for celebration. In Gaza, it‘s another child delivered into hell.”

Echoing deep concerns about the deteriorating humanitarian situation, UN World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus expressed alarm that hepatitis A infections had been confirmed in Gaza.