{"id":10544,"date":"2023-10-24T13:00:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/24\/2000-children-killed-in-gaza-aid-group-says-as-doctors-warn-fuel-shortage-is-a-death-sentence\/"},"modified":"2023-10-24T13:00:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T13:00:40","slug":"2000-children-killed-in-gaza-aid-group-says-as-doctors-warn-fuel-shortage-is-a-death-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/24\/2000-children-killed-in-gaza-aid-group-says-as-doctors-warn-fuel-shortage-is-a-death-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"2,000 children killed in Gaza, aid group says, as doctors warn fuel shortage is a death sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Aid agencies are calling for a ceasefire in Gaza as doctors warn an Israeli blockade on fuel means many more vulnerable babies and wounded people in hospitals will soon die. One agency says at least 2,000 children in Gaza have been killed in the past few weeks.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Israel has intensified its bombing campaign in the besieged strip as its defense minister Yoav Gallant said Monday the country is preparing for a \u201cmultilateral operation\u201d on the militant group Hamas that controls Gaza from the \u201cair, ground, and sea.\u201d   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Israel\u2019s leadership has vowed to wipe out Hamas in response to its October 7 deadly terror attacks and kidnap rampage in which 1,400 people, mostly civilians, were killed and more than 200 taken hostage.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      On Monday, Hamas freed two Israeli citizens \u2013 both elderly women \u2013 amid growing international pressure to secure the release of the rest of those abducted and taken to Gaza.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Save the Children said Monday that over 1 million children are \u201ctrapped\u201d in Gaza with no safe place to go and warned of the devastating impacts of lacking medication and electricity to power vital health infrastructure in the enclave.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cAt least 2,000 children have been killed in Gaza over the past 17 days, and a further 27 killed in the West Bank,\u201d the aid agency said on Monday.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cWe call on all parties to take immediate steps to protect the lives of children, and on the international community to support those efforts,\u201d Save the Children said, adding that Israeli airstrikes are \u201ckilling and injuring children indiscriminately.\u201d   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Latest figures from the Hamas-controlled Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza said the death toll resulting from Israeli strikes on the strip has reached at least 5,087, including 2,055 children.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cThe health system [in Gaza] has reached the worst stage in its history,\u201d said health ministry spokesperson Ashraf Al-Qudra in a statement early Tuesday.    <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"subheader\">    Fuel is a lifeline <\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Fuel means life in Gaza. Without fuel, water cannot be pumped<strong> <\/strong>or desalinated, generators that power hospitals \u2013 that keep incubators, ventilators and dialysis machines running and to sterilize surgical equipment \u2013 will fail.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Twelve hospitals and 32 medical centers are now out of service\u00a0after Israeli strikes\u00a0and fuel depletion, according to the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza. Early Tuesday, the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza had no electricity due to the fuel shortage, Hamas said.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Despite the urgency, no fuel trucks have entered Gaza as part of a humanitarian aid convoy from Egypt\u2019s Rafah border crossing over the weekend, according to Israeli and UN authorities.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Israel has repeatedly said fuel would be purloined by Hamas<strong> <\/strong>for its own war effort, including rocket attacks.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cAt the moment we have no interest in more fuel going to the Hamas military machine and we have not authorized fuel, we have authorized medicine, we have authorized water. We\u2019ve authorized foodstuffs, we\u2019ve not authorized anything else,\u201d Regev said.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cThe government decision is that fuel doesn\u2019t go in because it will be stolen by Hamas and it\u2019ll be used by them to power rockets that are fired into Israel to kill our people.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      However, US State Department spokesperson Matt Miller said Monday that while the UN is \u201cwatching closely\u201d for signs that Hamas is diverting humanitarian aid meant for civilians in Gaza, they have not reported any such signs to date.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"gallery-inline gallery--hidden\">\n<div class=\"gallery-inline__main\">\n<div class=\"gallery-inline__container\">\n<div class=\"gallery-inline__slides\">                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <\/div>\n<p>        <button class=\"gallery-inline__prev-overlay\"><\/button>        <button class=\"gallery-inline__next-overlay\"><\/button>      <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5 class=\"gallery-inline__headline\">In pictures: The deadly clashes in Israel and Gaza<\/h5>\n<div class=\"gallery-inline__counter\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-inline__controls\">        <button class=\"gallery-inline__prev\">          Prev                  <\/button>        <button class=\"gallery-inline__next\">          Next                  <\/button>      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"subheader\">    Hospitals could become \u2018mass graves\u2019<\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      In Gaza, outbreaks of smallpox, scabies, and diarrhea have emerged due to the deteriorating health environment, lack of sanitation, and consumption of water from unsafe sources, according to the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Health based in the occupied West Bank.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Hospitals are nearing collapse, operating at more than 150% of their capacity and situations have become so dire that surgeries are being conducted without anesthesia, and in some cases, under the illumination of phone lights, the Palestinian Authority health ministry added.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Around 50,000 pregnant women are struggling to access health care, with about 166 unsafe births happening daily, and more than 5,000 women due to give birth in the next month, it said.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City \u2013 the largest hospital in the enclave \u2013 has enough fuel to last a maximum of two days, according to senior surgeon Marwan Abusada on Monday.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Conditions in Al-Shifa are dire, with another doctor saying that without electricity, the hospital \u201cwill just be a mass grave\u201d and \u201cthere\u2019s nothing to do for these wounded.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The overwhelmed hospital has run out of burns dressings for the more than 100 patients in the facility with burns covering over 40% of their bodies, Abu-Sittah said. More than 150 patients on ventilators with critical injuries are relying on electricity to stay alive, he said.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Hospitals across Gaza are facing similar situations.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Hatem Edhair, head of Neonatal ICU at Nasser Medical Complex, said all non-emergency facilities have been turned off, as well as lights and air conditioning.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      He said 11 babies \u2013 most weighing under 1.5 kilograms \u2013 are in his neonatal intensive care unit, with admission rates rising as residents from northern Gaza flee south.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Twenty more trucks carrying vital relief aid crossed into Gaza Monday, but aid agencies warn that the current rate of delivery will do little to address the needs of more than 2 million people living in the enclave.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      That\u2019s half of 1% \u2013 or one two-hundredth \u2013 of the amount of aid it ordinarily receives.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"graphic\">\n<div class=\"graphic__anchor\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"subheader\">    Hostages released<\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Family members welcomed the release of two elderly hostages from Hamas custody Monday, while relatives of the hundreds of others captives in unknown conditions in Gaza face an agonizing wait for news of loves ones being held at gunpoint.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Israeli citizens Nurit Cooper, 79, and Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, were released following Qatari and Egyptian mediation, according to two Israeli officials and two other sources briefed on the matter.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The women were abducted from their homes in Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, a statement from Israel\u2019s prime minister\u2019s office said. Their spouses \u2013 Cooper\u2019s 85-year-old husband Amiram and Lifshitz\u2019s 83-year-old husband Oded \u2013 were kidnapped alongside them and are still held by Hamas, it added.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Around a quarter of residents from Nir Oz were killed or taken hostage in Hamas\u2019 onslaught.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Their release follows that of two American hostages, Judith Tai Raanan and her 17-year-old daughter, Natalie Raanan, who were freed on Friday.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cShe is talking, she can walk, she can hug her grandchildren, which we are very happy from that,\u201d Daniel Lifshitz said after meeting his grandmother in Tel Aviv.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Asked about the fate of his grandfather held by Hamas, Lifshitz said, \u201cnow my grandmother is back but still now I\u2019m more afraid about my grandfather that he\u2019s still there, and still no men being released.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cWe don\u2019t believe that this is the time for a ceasefire. Israel has a right to defend themselves. They still have work to do to go after Hamas leadership, we\u2019re going to keep supporting them or giving them more security assistance,\u201d Kirby said.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      <em>This is a developing story and will be updated. <\/em>  <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aid agencies are calling for a ceasefire in Gaza as doctors warn an Israeli blockade on fuel means many more vulnerable babies and wounded people in hospitals will soon die. One agency says at least 2,000 children in Gaza have been killed in the past few weeks. 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