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AMNESTY: Israel carried out indiscriminate attacks during the Gaza war Jul 02 09 Red Cross: 'Gazans still living in despair, unable to rebuild their ho... Jul 01 09 Red Cross: '1.5 Million Palestinians living in despair in Gaza' Jun 29 09 Latest News ArticlesSoldiers break into the Al Aqsa Mosque yard, kidnap three Palestinians 05:37 Fri 03 Jul Army admits Gaza girl was killed Thursday by soldiers' fire 05:22 Fri 03 Jul Hamas denies it planned to assassinate P.A figures in the West Bank 04:58 Fri 03 Jul Israeli Army rejects AMNESTY report on Gaza 00:49 Fri 03 Jul Army shell kills a 17-year old young woman, wounds her brother in Gaza 00:22 Fri 03 Jul Free Gaza Movement’s Two Palestinian 48 organizers released from Israeli detention 23:47 Thu 02 Jul PCHR Weekly Report: 11 Palestinian civilians, including 4 children, wounded by Israeli forces 22:53 Thu 02 Jul Hamas: PA forces killed three fighters, arrested 474 members of Hamas in the West Bank in June 16:54 Thu 02 Jul Israeli army invades West Bank cities and breaks its own pledge 13:19 Thu 02 Jul Troops kidnap the head of Workers Union in Salfit 11:42 Thu 02 Jul Full StoryEl Khodary: “The Occupation fights Palestinian children by aggression and siege” Friday November 21, 2008 01:33 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC News
 Independent Palestinian Legislator, head of the Popular Committee Against the Siege, Jamal El Khodary, stated on Thursday that the number of Gaza Strip children who died due to the Israeli siege is now more than 100, while Arab, international and Muslim countries continue their “deadly silence”. El Khodary stated in a press release on Thursday, that as the word marks the International Children's Day, the Israeli army killed more than 1000 Palestinian children since the beginning of the Intifada in late September of 2000. He added that nearly one hundred children died due to the ongoing siege on the Gaza Strip. El Khodary further said that hundreds of children suffer from different disabilities in addition to anxiety attacks and other psychological conditions due to the ongoing Israeli violations, repeated invasions and shelling. “40% of the children in Gaza suffer from malnutrition and anemia as their families depend on international aid, Arab and Islamic support”, El Khodary said, “this aid is not sufficient to build the children’s bodies in a healthy was natural way”. He also said that Israeli occupation soldiers kidnapped 8000 children since the beginning of the Intifada and that 400 of the kidnapped children are still imprisoned in detention centers that lack the basic components of decent and natural livelihood. He added that the children were interrogated, tortured and abused which caused devastating physiological and physical harm to them. El Khodary added that the children are the hope and the future of the nation, and must be provided with all needed help in order to grow up in a healthy environment. “Children are protected everywhere in the world, but here in Palestine, especially in the Gaza Strip, children cannot even find medicine and food”, El Khodary stated. |
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