Since the start of the conflict in the Middle East a year ago, 41,909 people diedamong them 16,764 children. Only 17 hospitals out of 36 are still functioning. 1.9 million displaced people, 90% Gazans.
These are the horrible figures of one of the the biggest massacres of the century. Those who survived live in a precarious situation. There are no schools, there is no work, there is no food. Surviving is what they devote their daily lives to. Abu Maamar, a Gazan, sums it up heartbreakingly: the living are more dead than those who are already dead.
This woman embodies the image of pain: she inconsolably rocks the lifeless body of Sally, her niece. “She was in my arms, we thought the world would see her with empathy and compassion, so that the war would end. But the suffering only increased“, account.
Her niece died during a bombardment a few days after the attacks began. “Ahmed, her brother, is the only one left in his family, he always asks us questions about her, he asks us where she is, why she doesn’t come back,” she says.
Its history has become a reflection of misery and despair hundreds of thousands of people. It embodies the history of an entire city. Like the rest, He has been fleeing the bombings for a year. Today, he is back home, holding on to Sally’s last memories.
“After we came back, we found out that our house was destroyed, we can’t live here, but all I wanted was to see this room again,” the woman said.
Just in the first 10 days of war Israel killed 3,000 peoplenearly 1,000 were children. Since then, nearly 42,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in Gaza.
“Those who are alive die more than those who were murdered, those who are still in the tents, their pain is greater,” insists Abou Maamar.
Tired of fleeing, they decided to stay in what remained of their homes, even if it meant dying under the bombs. The executive director of the Spanish Committee of UNRWA explains to laSexta that “they have fewer and fewer goods and have access to less water, food and medicine. We have never seen anything like this in the History of the United Nations since the Second World War.
A year after the siege began, Israel continues to spread its wave of violence and destruction. Also in the West Bank, this Monday, a child of only 12 years old was killed there. In 18 years, no other conflict has claimed the lives of as many children as that in Gaza, in just one year.
