Thousands of people have received amputations since October 2023, but only eight prosthetic technicians, and restricted entry of prosthetic materials. It could take five years or more to meet their needs
The casualties largely came from Israeli attacks on residential buildings in southern towns and villages. The attacks seem to almost exclusively target civilian homes without any pretense of Hezbollah links.
Infants born at the outbreak of the conflict face a lifetime of disability from toxic gas, severe burns, and a collapsed healthcare system. 1,200 children in Gaza now suffer from spinal cord injuries and paralysis directly resulting from Israeli attacks.
An estimated 1.1 million children in Gaza now need mental health and psychosocial support, as a growing number lose their ability to speak due to trauma and injuries from Israeli attacks.
“It does feel like if a group of Palestinians with machine guns broke into an Israeli school and shot a bunch of children, it would be breaking news in every outlet on Earth,” said one reporter.
“After 35 years of defending Palestinian children’s rights, we are not able to overcome operational challenges resulting from Israel’s targeted criminalization of Palestinian human rights organizations,” said DCI-P General Director Khaled Quzmar.
The law resolves a long-standing political demand by Israel’s far-right leadership to formalize execution as a tool of control over Palestinians.
As the world marks Autism Awareness Month, Gaza’s autistic children face collapsed healthcare, lost therapy and repeated displacement, erasing years of progress
Months of hostilities, displacement and an estimated 72,000 civilian deaths in Gaza are reshaping family structures and leaving a growing number of children without parental care
Swedish Akelius Foundation says it plans schools and 100,000 daily meals in Gaza while warning Israeli forces may restrict access or target staff and children