A food survey by aid agencies in May found that 85 percent of children did not eat for a whole day at least once in the three days before the survey was conducted.
Ten-year-old Siraj Yassin suffers from leukaemia, which has destroyed his immune system and left him unable to walk. Doctors at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Gaza say the boy cannot access chemotherapy in Gaza and also cannot get out of the besieged and bombarded territory for treatment now that Israeli forces have shut the only exit through the Rafah crossing into Egypt.
How to calm a one-year-old and a two-year-old and reassure them that they're safe when you yourself are terrified?
How to look into your children's eyes when you can't keep them safe, sound and healthy?
Like every day, in our tent , we wake up, we sleep, we eat, we get sick, we check in on our relatives .. all amid the sounds of bombs, the smell and the news of death.
But today, it was very near. We fear we're next.
Scarlett Wong, a clinical psychologist for Doctors Without Borders, or Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), travelled to Gaza in March.
Part of her role was to locate and support 17,000 unaccompanied children, including "child heads of households" — the term given to young children who had to look after their siblings.
The latest #doxxing attempt fits a pattern of #threats against people who speak out against Trump.
The addresses & phone numbers of fmr Trump lawyer Cohen's family members were posted to a doxxing website after Trump was #convicted of 34 #felony counts in connection w/a scheme to illegally #influence the #2016election.
#MichaelCohen, #Trump's fmr "fixer," played a key role in the plot to silence adult film actor #StormyDaniels during the 2016 election & testified against Trump….
Phone numbers & addresses for Cohen's wife & #children were posted early Mon on a site that has been used to target other figures involved in Trump’s various #legal issues….
“What sad times we are living through when people resort to this type of doxxing stupidity to redress their grievances,” Cohen said….
"Our researchers are regularly scanning for potential #threats & instigations of #PoliticalViolence. …we identified personal details online — #doxxing— for #MichaelCohen, his wife, & his #children. The individual who shared the information online…, likely had an #intent to #harm Cohen—providing these personal details on the Cohen family in the context of calling Cohen a 'lying bastard' & identifying him as someone who 'betrayed #Trump’….” - Daniel J. Jones, ADI president, stmnt.
"Tony Gonzales, the #Republican congressman who represents #Uvalde, where the #MassShooting of 19 #children & two adults took place in 2022, barely won his runoff against a #gun zealot who refers to himself as “The AK Guy,” a reference to his fondness for Kalashnikov assault rifles...
Gaza’s Government Media Office warns that more than 3,500 children under the age of five are at risk of dying due to shortages of food, nutritional supplements and vaccinations.
These children are experiencing severe malnutrition, harming their physical development and making them vulnerable to infectious diseases.
Palestinian children in Khan Yunis [Doaa Albaz/Anadolu]
Injured Palestinians, including children, are brought to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital following an Israeli attack on the Bureij refugee camp, in Deir-el Balah, Gaza on Monday morning [Ashraf Amra/Anadolu images]