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In the second week of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, children without the strength of chickens have become the most innocent victims of the war. Before their lives could begin, they disappeared into this terrible early summer.
On May 18, local time, in the Gaza region, Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, government buildings rose into smoke and fire. Over the past few days, the bloody clashes between Palestine and Israel have escalated, causing a large number of casualties, including children, which has aroused serious concern in the international community.
On May 18, local time, in Rafah Province, Gaza Strip, the Israeli military continued to attack Gaza, and Palestinian parents fled with their children from the buildings targeted by Israeli air strikes.
Since the ongoing exchange of fire between Palestine and Israel, 217 Palestinians, including 63 children, have been killed in clashes in the Gaza Strip, Russian Satellite News Agency reported on May 19. According to other sources, 223 minors were among the injured who were evacuated to the West Bank for treatment. On the Israeli side, 12 people died, including 11 civilians, including a 5-year-old boy.
On May 16, local time, after Israeli air strikes on a residential building in the Gaza Strip, people rescued an injured child from the rubble.
On May 16, local time, Palestinian civil defence personnel rescued a child from the rubble of a bombed residential building in the Gaza Strip.
"When bombs rain down, parents in Gaza desperately try to appease frightened children, telling the youngest that it's just fireworks, or trying to put on a happy face." The Associated Press wrote in an article on the 19th.
At an age when they should have been spoiled in the arms of their parents, studying in the classroom, and playing with their friends in the park, children in the smoke of war were forced to witness the destruction of their homes, the death of their families and the harsh reality. Fleeing became the subject of their lives, and filling their stomachs was the most desired thing. Childish faces were filled with helplessness, horror, and sadness.
On May 17, local time, Palestinian women fleeing their homes affected by the Palestinian-Israeli conflict took refuge in a school in the Gaza Strip with their young children in their arms, their eyes wide open and looking at the world in horror.
On May 14, local time, Palestinian children took refuge in a UNRWA school following a violent Israeli attack on the city of Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza. The little girl's face full of grievances and sadness was heart-wrenching.
On 14 May local time, in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian refugees took refuge in a UNRWA school.
"On average, 3 Palestinian children are injured every hour, which is extremely frightening!" Jason Lee, director of save the children, an international charity in Palestine, said injured children will not only endure long-term disabilities for the rest of their lives, but also face incredible damage to their mental health.
According to the British newspaper The Independent, a home in the Shati refugee camp in the Palestinian city of Gaza was destroyed in the early morning of May 15 in Israeli airstrikes, killing at least 10 people, including eight children. The only one who survived was the five-month-old baby Omar.
On May 15, local time, nurses comforted Omar, the only surviving person, his mother and 4 siblings and 5 other family members were killed in the airstrike.
On May 15, local time, Omar's family wept bitterly next to the remains of the family members who died in the airstrike.
At the time, there were 11 Palestinians in the house, and the family was reuniting to celebrate Eid al-Fitr. After the airstrikes, the ruins of the Shati refugee camp were reportedly littered with children's toys and uneaten food from the party. When rescuers rescued Omar from the rubble, he was still holding his dead mother. The child's father did not escape the scene, but his wife and 4 other children were killed, including his sister and 4 children in the air raid. He said sadly: "The Israeli military bombed the house without any warning!" Except for Omar, I lost all my family in an instant. ”
On May 15, local time, a house in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, Palestine, was destroyed by Bombing by Israeli warplanes, killing 8 children.
On May 15, local time, Palestinians held funerals for a family of ten who were unfortunately killed in an air strike in the early morning of the same day.
Faced with a devastated home and unable to do anything about it, Taif, a 10-year-old Palestinian girl, collapsed in front of the camera and cried, "I see all this and cry every day." I asked myself, why bear all this? What am I doing wrong? It's not fair! She cried: "I'm only 10 years old, I can't do anything." What can be done? Fix the house? I can't stand it anymore. ”
Taif, a 10-year-old Palestinian girl, stood by the rubble for an interview. The place where she stood was her neighbor's home before the Israeli airstrikes.
On May 16, local time, in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, children witnessed their homes being blown up.
The Palestinian-Israeli conflict has resulted in the destruction of at least 132 buildings in the Gaza Strip and serious damage to 316 buildings, including six hospitals and nine medical facilities, the United Nations aid agency said on May 18. In addition, Israel has carried out heavy shelling of schools in Gaza, destroying more than 30 schools in the Gaza Strip and forcing some 600,000 students to close schools. More than 50,000 Palestinians have been forced to flee their homes. So far, 47,000 people have sought refuge in 58 United Nations schools in Gaza.
On May 17, local time, Palestinian children carried plush toys through the rubble in jawarata, Gaza Strip, which was severely damaged by Israeli air strikes. Since the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, a large number of schools have been destroyed and about 600,000 students have been forced to close schools.
On May 14, local time, in Beit Raya in the northern Gaza Strip, a Palestinian family was forced to flee in a donkey cart.
On May 14, local time, in the Gaza Strip, Palestinians fled their homes with their families.
On May 14, local time, in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, a Palestinian family carried simple daily necessities to prepare to go to a safe place.
The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is the largest fighting in the region since 2014. Samir Khatib, an emergency relief officer in Gaza, said: "In the 14 years I have been working, I have never seen this level of destruction, even in the 2014 war. ”
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Public Information, more than 3,000 children have been killed in Israeli attacks on Palestine over the past 20 years.
On May 16, local time, in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian children injured by airstrikes were treated at The Al-Hefa Hospital.
On May 18, local time, the father kissed his 7-year-old daughter injured in an airstrike at the Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip. His wife and four children were killed in the airstrike.
On May 15, local time, Pakistani children were in ruins. The Israeli army launched an air strike on the evening of the 14th, destroying a bank building of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, which was razed to the ground.
(Intern Zhang Xiaomian also contributed to this article, this article photo: People's Vision, Xinhua News Agency, The Paper)
This issue is edited by Shan Zou