Save the Children estimates that 130,000 children are trapped in north Gaza since Israeli forces besieged the area on 6 October.
Jeremy Stoner, the charities regional director, said that “The situation in northern Gaza is not fit for human survival and yet we know there are about 130,000 children under 10 trapped in those conditions, not to mention the thousands of older children and their families.”
“The war in Gaza is a war on children. There is no plainer way to illustrate this then to look at the people who make up the death figures – over 4 in every 10 people verified killed in Gaza is a child. Of these children, most are 5–9-year-olds. These are children who should be learning to read and ride bikes. They should not be ending up in mortuaries.
“Without access and a ceasefire, we are condemning children to perish in hell on earth,” he added.
