Lahore:
Although the 15 -month -long genocide attacks on Gaza have reached a temporary stop with the recent ceasefire agreement, the destruction left in their wake is unimaginable.
Over 2 million people, including pregnant women and innocent children, have carried the head of this violence. Among these children, a significant number have been left as amputees, forever changed by the horrors they endured.
While the ceasefire has brought a measure of relief to the population of Gaza, it cannot regret the irreversible injury done – especially the thousands of limbs lost by Palestinian children during the long -term attacks, as some have described as an infant act.
According to the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Palestinian children have been killed, starved and frozen to death in the Gaza Strip.
Tom Fletcher, UN Defendant General of Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, said, “Children have been killed, starved and frozen to death. They have been mutilated, orphaned and separated from their families.” His words emphasized the staggering influence on Gaza’s youngest generation. In addition, the UN statistics reveal that approximately 150,000 pregnant women and new mothers urgently need healthcare in Gaza.
In the wake of the ceasefire, two Pakistani siblings-10-year-old Ubaydah al-Fiddhah Hafiah and her 12-year-old brother Ghulam Bishar Hafi-end have once raised their voices to the voiceless amputated children of Palestine. Through a press release issued by their father and inspiration, Professor Dr. Aurangzeb Hafi, they have announced the continuation of their campaign, “Voice for the Voiceless,” to go in for the children left in the wake of the conflict.
