Martyrs in Israeli bombing of Gaza UNRWA warns that children pay the price of war

Five Palestinians were killed and others were injured on Wednesday when an Israeli aircraft bombed tents for displaced people in Khan Yunis, while the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) warned that children are paying "the highest price of the war in Gaza, amid displacement and fear of losing their childhood."

A medical source at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis said: “We received five martyrs and wounded as a result of Israeli shelling on Khan Yunis city in the southern Gaza Strip.” Eyewitnesses explained that an Israeli aircraft bombed tents for displaced people in the Hamad City residential area north of Khan Yunis.

During the Israeli war, Palestinians were forcibly displaced from their homes that were destroyed by Israel, forcing them to set up temporary tents in different areas that lacked the minimum necessities of life. On Monday morning, the occupation army launched a surprise air and artillery attack on the eastern areas of Khan Yunis, resulting in hundreds of martyrs and wounded.

Intensive Israeli raids continue on the eastern areas of Khan Yunis, which the Israeli occupation army previously claimed were "safe." These areas witnessed a large displacement of citizens who fled under the Israeli raids to other places far from the targeted areas, on foot or using primitive means of transportation.

For its part, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said in a post on the X platform: “Our colleagues at UNRWA continue to provide psychosocial and recreational activities to give them (the children) a sense of normality as much as possible.”

“Children should be able to be children,” she stressed. On Tuesday, the agency’s communications officer, Louise Waterridge, told BBC Radio 4 that Israel had placed more than 80% of the Gaza Strip under evacuation orders, and that thousands of Palestinians were continuing to flee Khan Younis again.

Since October 7, 2023, Israel, with American support, has been waging a war on Gaza, resulting in more than 129,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing amid massive destruction and deadly famine.

Tel Aviv continues this war, ignoring the two UN Security Council resolutions calling for an immediate halt to it, and the International Court of Justice’s orders to take measures to prevent acts of genocide and to improve the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Strip.