Unicef communications specialist Rosalia Bollen says “it’s absolutely appalling” that children continue to be killed every day in Gaza, Al Jazeera reports.
“While attacks are concentrated on the north, families are killed here in the centre and southern parts of Gaza as well,” she told Al Jazeera from Deir el-Balah.
“Beyond that, at least 14,500 children have been reported killed. There are tens of thousands more that are injured and at least a quarter of those are thought to require major rehabilitation, they risk lifelong disability.”
She said she met an eight-year-old girl in northern Gaza a few days ago who has now lost her leg up to the knee after three separate amputations because it kept getting infected due to a lack of medical supplies.
“And as this girl was explaining what had happened to her, she said she saw maggots coming out of her leg. This is something that no child should have to go through. The body of this eight-year-old has been brutalised. All children in Gaza have been traumatised.”
