Hope amid ruins: Gaza sleeps without fear
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Lahore, Pakistan – AFP In a Pakistan paediatric ward, a chorus of infant coughs and straining lungs is the toll of a frigid winter, compounded by choking smog and lagging vaccination rates. “Please pray for him,” the mother of four-month-old pneumonia patient Ibrahim begs a nurse in Lahore, delicately arranging a blanket arou...
GENEVA (AA) – Nearly 20,000 babies have been born during the current war in Gaza, while 135,000 children under age 2 are at “severe risk” of malnutrition, UNICEF has said. Noting that the number equals one baby born about every 10 minutes since October 7, Tess Ingram, a UNICEF spokesperson, told a press briefing in […]
LONDON (AA) – Save the Children has raised alarm over rising casualties among the children in Gaza, with the official death toll now crossing 10,000. The UK-based charity stressed that the children are not mere statistics but individuals with dreams, hopes, and the right to a safe future. “They deserve to go to sleep at […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Fayza Abdul Aziz, 11, and Mira Ayash, 8, two Palestinian girls who were injured in separate Israeli attacks in the southern Gaza Strip, are currently hospitalized at the Gaza European Hospital in Khan Younis City. The scenes of the Israeli bombardment haunt the girls in the form of “terrifying nightmares...
ANKARA (AA) – At least 4,119 Palestinian school students have been killed and 7,536 others injured in the relentless ongoing Israeli attacks on Gaza, according to the Palestinian Education Ministry. In addition to the students’ casualties in Gaza, the Israeli army also killed 37 school students and injured 282 others in the occupied West...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian officials have called an Israeli soldier taking an infant girl from Gaza “a heinous crime,” saying she should be handed back immediately. “The kidnapping of the infant girl from the Gaza Strip is evidence that the (Israeli) occupation army is committing the most heinous crimes agai...
NEW YORK (AA) – Funds raised for the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF), a cause supported by Ella Emhoff, the stepdaughter of US Vice President Kamala Harris, have surpassed $11 million. Ella Emhoff, the daughter of Kerstin Emhoff, the first wife of Harris’s husband Doug Emhoff, openly endorsed and shared on her socia...
GENEVA – AFP UNICEF spokesperson James Elder, who spent nearly two weeks in Gaza, said at a press briefing in Geneva that he was “furious that those with power shrug at the humanitarian nightmares unleashed on a million children” in Gaza. He spoke of the fate of children hospitalised after having undergone amputations and who...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP The UN children’s agency, UNICEF, has said nearly one million children have been displaced in Gaza because of Israeli attacks. “They are now being pushed further and further south into tiny, overcrowded areas without water, food or protection,” said Adele Khodr of UNICEF. “The restrictio...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army raided and sealed an orphanage near Hebron city in the southern occupied West Bank, and seized all its assets and material on Thursday. Eyewitnesses said that the Israeli army raided the headquarters of the Beit Ummar Association for Orphan Care in Beit Ummar town, and seized the association’s ...
