Must Read statement Save the Children to the UN: ‘The children of Gaza have reached their breaking point. Where is yours?’
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*** Must Read statement
Save the Children to the UN:
‘The children of Gaza have reached their breaking point. Where is yours?’
‘"After two weeks, the process accelerates, and their small bodies rapidly deteriorate. Heart, liver and kidneys weaken, infections spread with ease as their immune system collapses. They become vulnerable to diarrhoea, pneumonia, sepsis. At this stage there is no fat left, so the body begins to literally consume itself, slowly, painfully eating the muscles and the other vital organs.
"Bellies swell and skin becomes fragile. At three weeks the process of starvation has reached its final catastrophic phase. Children get lesions on their eyes and go blind, hair falls out, organs shut down. Unable to move or speak or cry out, they draw their last breath.
"Those who do get urgent nutrition and medical support often grow up stunted. A stunted child will likely have impaired cognitive development, a weakened immune system and increased risk of chronic diseases.
"Babies born to malnourished mothers are likely to be forever smaller themselves. Many effects of famine cannot be reversed. The death and loss, the physical and mental harm, will last lifetimes and even generations. In the words of a nutrition nurse who works in our now silent clinics, “Hunger is written on the bodies of our children, a constant reminder that survival itself has become uncertain in Gaza.”
"For almost two years, the international community has failed to protect Palestinian children. Until you choose to act, this is the fate you are guaranteeing a generation of children in Gaza. Inaction is a choice. Indecision is complicity.
"Children have reached their breaking point. Where is yours?"
savethechildren.net/news/save-chil
posted by Satish Sharma at
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