Inside Gaza, cut off from the world by a near total blockade, Israeli airstrikes have decimated entire neighborhoods, leveling homes, schools and mosques. CNN drone footage from Monday showed the level of destruction across parts of the strip, with whole streets flattened in the al-Rimal neighborhood in Gaza City and a row of destroyed buildings known as al-Zahra towers in central Gaza.

Save the Children said Monday that over 1 million children are “trapped” in Gaza with no safe place to go and warned of the devastating impacts of lacking medication and electricity to power vital health infrastructure in the enclave.

“At least 2,000 children have been killed in Gaza over the past 17 days, and a further 27 killed in the West Bank,” the aid agency said on Monday.

“We call on all parties to take immediate steps to protect the lives of children, and on the international community to support those efforts,” Save the Children said, adding that Israeli airstrikes are “killing and injuring children indiscriminately.”

  • Coreidan@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What is even more fucked up is that USA has zero interest in “fixing” the Middle East.

    It should be obvious by now that the only interest USA has in the Middle East is the hoarding of resources.

    They want the Middle East to be destabilized so they can continue hoarding wealth. It’s the whole reason they prop up Israel so the fighting and wars continue.

    There are no ethics here.

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      1 year ago

      Not just the US. All the players have agreed on this, including all the Arab countries and Isralei hardliners and Hamas (who are the closest of partners) and US and Europe, etc.

      Don’t kid yourself that it’s just the US.