VIDEO| Totally-terrified child cries as Israeli airstrikes on Gaza continue
Besieged Gaza Strip (QNN)- So far, 12 Gazans, including a 5-year-old girl and 23-year-old woman, have been killed in the Israeli bombardment of Gaza Strip as Israeli jets pound the coastal enclave for the second day in a row.
The Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed the killing of 12 people and injuring of over 80 others in the Israeli airstrikes launched on Friday afteroon on Gaza.
Israeli occupation said it is preparing for a “week of operations” against Palestinian resistance groups in the Gaza Strip; the operation was called “Breaking Dawn.”
Yesterday, Alaa Abdullah Riyad Qaddoum, 5, was killed around 4:30 p.m. on August 5 by an Israeli airstrike in the Shuja’iyya neighborhood of Gaza City. The Israeli airstrike hit a group of people gathered outside Abu Samra mosque in the Wadi Al-Arayes area of Shuja’iyya neighborhood. Alaa’s six-year-old brother, Riyad, and father, Abdullah, were also injured in the same attack.
Alaa was killed instantly and sustained injuries to her forehead, chest, and right leg from shrapnel, according to a doctor at Al-Shifa hospital. Alaa is the 19th Palestinian child killed by Israeli forces in 2022, according to the Health Ministry.
Video footage circulated today on social media shows a Gazan child crying as he is terrified of being a possible target of the next Israeli airstrikes.
Media coverage: "Palestinian child from Gaza was seen crying so hard as he is terrified of being a possible target of the next Israeli missiles and bombardment."#GazaUnderAttack pic.twitter.com/yDrFXxZGa0
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) August 6, 2022
Indeed, the vast majority of Gaza’s 800,000 children have only ever known life under the Israeli blockade, and they are in a mental crisis because of it.
“Trapped“, a recent report by Save the Children, found that 80 percent of children and young people in Gaza suffer from depression, sadness and fear. The NGO interviewed 488 children and 168 parents and caregivers in the Gaza Strip, following up on similar research that they conducted in 2018. Since their last report, the number of children reporting emotional distress has now increased from 55 to 80 percent.
