{"id":38199,"date":"2024-12-14T11:38:51","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T19:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=38199"},"modified":"2024-12-14T11:38:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T19:38:52","slug":"study-finds-96-of-gaza-children-fear-imminent-death-and-half-want-to-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/12\/14\/study-finds-96-of-gaza-children-fear-imminent-death-and-half-want-to-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Study Finds 96% of Gaza Children Fear Imminent Death\u2014And Half Want to Die"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A Palestinian girl is in shock after surviving an Israeli bombing of an UNRWA school in the Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza, Palestine on July 14, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0(Photo: Salama Nabeel Eaid Younes\/Anadolu via Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The world’s failure to protect Gaza’s children is a moral failing on a monumental scale,” said one advocate.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

BRETT WILKINS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dec 13, 2024 (CommonDreams.org)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amid a relentless Israeli onslaught that has wrought monumental physical and psychological destruction in Gaza<\/a>, a report<\/a> published this week revealed that nearly all children in the embattled Palestinian enclave believe their death is imminent\u2014and nearly half of them want to die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Gaza-based Community Training Center for Crisis Management, supported by War Child Alliance, surveyed more than 500 Palestinian children in Gaza last June and found that 96% of them fear imminent death, 92% are not accepting of reality, 79% suffer from nightmares, 77% avoid discussing traumatic events, 73% display signs of aggression, 49% wish to die because of the war, and many more “show signs of withdrawal and severe anxiety, alongside a pervasive sense of hopelessness.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This report lays bare that Gaza is one of the most horrifying places in the world to be a child,” War Child U.K. CEO Helen Pattinson said in a statement<\/a>. “Alongside the leveling of hospitals, schools, and homes, a trail of psychological destruction<\/a> has caused wounds unseen but no less destructive on children who hold no responsibility for this war.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Israel’s 434-day assault on Gaza\u2014which is the subject of an International Court of Justice genocide case<\/a>\u2014has left tens of thousands of children dead<\/a>, maimed<\/a>, missing<\/a>, or orphaned<\/a> and hundreds of thousands more forcibly displaced<\/a>, starved<\/a>, or sickened<\/a>. Doctors and others including volunteers from the United States have documented many cases in which they’ve concluded Israeli snipers and other troops have deliberately shot children<\/a> in the head and chest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The harm caused to Gaza’s children goes beyond statistics. Behind every number is a name, a life, and a future that is being extinguished before it can even begin,” Iain Overton, executive director of the U.K.-based group Action on Armed Violence, said<\/a> in response to the new report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The world’s failure to protect Gaza’s children is a moral failing on a monumental scale,” he added. “We must act decisively and compassionately to ensure that these children’s voices are heard and their futures protected.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In October, the U.K.-based charity Oxfam International said<\/a> that Israel’s yearlong assault on Gaza has been the deadliest year of conflict for women and children anywhere in the world over the past two decades. A year ago, the United Nations Children’s Fund called<\/a> Gaza “the world’s most dangerous place to be a child.” Earlier this year, U.N. Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres for the first time added Israel<\/a> to his so-called “List of Shame” of countries that kill and injure children during wars and other armed conflicts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The international community must act now before the child mental health catastrophe we are witnessing embeds itself into multi-generational trauma, the consequences of which the region will be dealing with for decades to come,” Pattinson stressed. “A cease-fire must be the immediate first step to allow War Child and other agencies to effectively respond to the intense psychological damage children are experiencing.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Addressing the complicity of allies like the United States, Germany, and Britain, who provide weapons and diplomatic cover for\u00a0Israel<\/a>, progressive U.K. parliamentarian Jeremy Corbyn\u00a0wrote<\/a>\u00a0on social media in response to the new report, “Every single supplier of arms to Israel has blood on its hands\u2014and the world will never forgive them.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brett Wilkins is a staff writer for Common Dreams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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