Over 18,000 children Killed in Gaza in 22 Months, UNICEF Reports
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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Monday that more than 18,000 children were killed in Gaza in 22 months, adding: “Each day, on average, an entire class of children is killed in Gaza”. UNICEF has published a declaration on social networks concerning developments in Gaza. In this statement, UNICEF stressed that children die because of bombing, hunger, famine and lack of access to basic services. The declaration recalls that the children of Gaza have an urgent need for food, water, drugs and protection, and concludes: “At present, what we need most is a cease-fire. Immediately!”.
In addition,”the Humanitarian Affairs coordination Office (OCHA) reports that many people continue to be killed or injured,including those looking for food along the routes taken by UN convoys or near the militarized distribution points. About 1,500 people have been killed since May,” said the deputy spokesman for the UN Secretary General Farhan Haq during a press briefing in New York.
Hunger to break Palestinian resistance
Conversely, the Gaza Government Data Office indicated that Israel had only authorized entry of 674 aid trucks as July 27, barely 14% of the required daily minimum, estimated at 600 trucks. He also said that the majority of the 80 trucks entered on Sunday were looted in a “climate of chaos and deliberately established famine”, accusing Israel of instrumentalizing hunger to break the Palestinian resistance.
Israel is continuing a deadly military offensive on Gaza, despite international calls to a ceasefire. Nearly 61,000 Palestinians were killed, according to local authorities, almost half of whom are women and children. The military campaign ravaged the enclave and led it to the edge of the famine.
In addition, the Israeli channel 13 has reported the secret meetings of meetings between israeli political leaders and security concerning the last cease-fire agreement in Gaza revealing that Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu rejected proposals that could have enabled the release of all hostages and a break in the war, an Israeli channel reported on Monday.
Netanyahu opposed to any proposal for a ceasefire
According to chain 13, these documents show that the highest heads of Israeli security estimated that a global agreement was possible and that it could have been followed by a resumption of the fighting if necessary. But Netanyahu opposed it. “The entire Israeli direction has misused that humanitarian pressure would push Hamas to capitulate,” added the report.
Five months later, the Israeli approach aimed at limiting humanitarian aid in Gaza considerably tarnished its international reputation without weakening Hamas, the media specifies.
The protocols indicate that the first of these meetings took place on March 1, 2025, shortly after the restitution of the bodies of the hostages Itzik Elgarat, Ohad Yahalomi, Tsahi Idan and Shloro Mansour.
At that time,Israeli leaders debated the continuation of the second phase of the agreement,which was to include negotiations at the end of the war and the release of other captives,or the resumption of military operations. During the same meeting,the ex-director of Shin Bet Ronen Bar said that “[son] Favorite option is to go to phase two”,adding that it is indeed always better to have a living hostage than a dead one.
