The IDF bombed them in homes without hesitation, as a first option. It’s much easier to bomb a family’s home. The system is built to look for them in these situations.
— “A”, an intelligence officer
In the first month, more than half of the fatalities belonged to just 1,340 families, many of them wiped out entirely while inside their homes.
Palestinian girl, 11, tells of surviving two days under rubble
“We stayed under the rubble for two days without food or water. We expected to die under the rubble.”
“After they bombed our house, the tanks approached us. The soldiers started shooting over our house. The tank drove over the house rubble. We made a small hole in the wall and we barely got out. Soldiers laughed at us and told us to move forward, neither to the right or the left.”
Chloe Park, Age Now: 17, Missing: 05/28/2024. Missing From Billings, MT. ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT: Yellowstone County Sheriff's Office (Montana) 1-800-877-1082.
“They are permanently, constantly, fleeing for their lives, from one danger zone to another. And they’re not fleeing randomly – they’re going to the areas that Israel directed them to go to ‘for their own safety’. Then they are being attacked.”
Xavier Joubert, Save the Children
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“For those who haven’t yet been hit by explosive weapons fired directly into civilian areas, they are suffering the slow, agonizing effects of starvation. Children’s mental and physical health is being pushed beyond breaking point, as they suffer unimaginable mental harm from the violence, serious physical injuries, including the loss of body parts, and the loss of families, homes, and their schools.”
Xavier Joubert, Save the Children
Tyleah Pruitt, Age Now: 14, Missing: 05/08/2024. Missing From LAVEEN, AZ. ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT: Phoenix Police Department (Arizona) 1-602-262-6151.
About 6.5 million children in Afghanistan were forecast to experience crisis levels of hunger in 2024, nongovernmental organization Save the Children said.
Nearly 3 of 10 Afghan children will face crisis or emergency levels of hunger this year as the country feels the immediate impacts of floods, the long-term effects of drought, and the return of Afghans from neighboring Pakistan and Iran,
Hundreds of thousands of them are at risk. They are sick, living with disabilities, malnourished & traumatized.
The children in Gaza need a ceasefire now to prevent further suffering."
Palestinians travel in a donkey-drawn cart loaded with their belongings as they flee Rafah due to an Israeli military operation, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 28. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled