Elder called for an immediate humanitarian truce in Gaza, warning once more that without a truce disease-deaths could outnumber bombing-deaths in the besieged Palestinian territory.
In a Tuesday posting on UNICEF's X platform, Elder announced, “Without sufficient safe water, food, and sanitation that only a humanitarian ceasefire can bring - child deaths due to disease could surpass those killed in bombardments.”
So far, the death toll of Israel’s war on Gaza nears 20,000 of which, according to the territory’s Health Ministry, more than 7,700 were children killed by the Zionist war machine.
Earlier, the UN’s children’s agency said entire neighborhoods in Gaza, where children used to play and go to school, had been reduced to rubble in the month-long bombings of Israeli warplanes.
Since the war's start, the Apartheid regime forces have been attacking Gaza towns, villages, and refugee camps from the air, land, and sea with bombings, shelling, and direct military engagement.
In addition, the area is under the “complete siege” of Israeli forces, blocking water, food, medicine, and fuel to the region, causing starvation and spreading disease among the 2.3 million defenseless trapped Palestinians.
AMK/PressTV