Children in Gaza want to die for ‘unbearable mourning’, says doctor

The children asked: Why didn’t I die with my sister, my mother, my father? Not for extremism, but for the unbearable grief they felt. I wonder if any member of this Council has already met any 5 -year -olds who no longer want to live. Feroze Sidhwa, in a statement to the UN Security Commission, on the last day 28

Nearly a thousand children have been killed for attacks in Gaza in the last two months, according to UNICEF. The United Nations Children’s Fund has released in May that children in the region are being “killed and mutilated within hospitals, schools transformed into shelters, makeshift tents or parents’ arms”, and that in the last 60 days, 950 of them have lost their lives in this way.

Medical care occurred amid “rain of fire and deaths everywhere,” followed a surgeon. “Between my two passages in Gaza, I witnessed a sharp decline in patients’ health, caused not only by injuries, but by worsening hunger and malnutrition, which made their bodies more fragile, the healing of the slower injuries, and their survivors much more uncertain,” he followed in front of members of the committee and other guests present at the meeting, including the Ambassador of Israel in the UN.

The medical system did not fail, was systematically dismantled by a continuous military campaign that deliberately violated international humanitarian law. Civilians are now dying not only of constant air strikes, but acute malnutrition, sepsis, malnutrition and despair. Fierce Sidhwain testimony to the UN Security Commission on the last day 28

After a hearing, doctor stressed that he decided to testify to the UN Security Council to “tell the world” what he saw with his own eyes. To the American television channel ABC News he said: “It is devastating what I saw there, but it is even worse knowledge, as a US citizen, that my own government is funding and stimulating it, (…) and that we could stop all this devastation, but we follow.”

Palestinian ambassador cried in testimony

At the same meeting where Sidhwa gave testimony, Palestine ambassador to UN cried when talking about the death of children in the Gaza Strip. Riyad Mansour’s emotional speech reverberated in national and international news vehicles (watch here).