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hello and welcome to the program. i'm fully back to both children are entitled to special protection under international law. but that hasn't been enough to save the thousands killed or injured in his rouse will on guy. so come off to has targeted children. an estimated $33.00 were killed in 40, taken captive in the on groups a sold on southern israel on october, the 7th. and since then, thousands of palestinian children have been injured or killed by is really forces in garza and the occupied westbank, often with weapons supplied by western countries that profess the champion human rights. fen child's protection is read also detains young palestinians in his jails and tries them in military courts. so why of policy and children so often in the line of these really fire and watch the world doing to protect them? will be asking all guess this in more in just a few moments. but for us, this report from alexandra by is on, is arouse chime take tense. just days ago,

adam, i'll go was a live. at 8 years old, his world revolved around football, family, and friends. this is the moment he was shot dead by in his railey soldier in jeanine, in the occupied westbank panicked. his older brother tries to pull him to safety, but it's too late. nearby their friend basil a. bu, a wafaa. just 15 years old is also gone down for the boys survived, life will never be the same in families wonder what could possibly justify the targeting of children and, and know and asked of him. i wish i wasn't a 3 and someone would come to wake me telling me i'm just dreaming. i would never in god's name was this felix to anyone for palestinian children living under is really occupation. the reality is that nowhere is 6 in the occupied westbank. every

year, hundreds of youngsters are detained and is really jails. often without charges. it's worse than god. the 6 year old she is the only surviving member of her family . oh and then we were sleep. be my mom and my sister and my dad by the balcony. when the 1st work it hit, my sister screamed and i held my mom tight. then the building felt her home was destroyed and it is really air strike. it was in one of the so called safe zones and southern gaza. more than 6000 palestinian children had been killed since israel began its compartment of the strip on october. the 7th gauze is health ministry says the child is killed every 10 minutes and close to $9000.00. have been wounded many with life altering injuries. oh, off martial, also numbers here. i was working and i heard back to actually and i felt of the

ground as i was unconscious for maybe 15 seconds. then i heard the sound of screaming and yelling. so i looked at my leg and i found it tripped open and bleeding, a load of blood, save the children, says more young people have been killed in gaza than in all conflicts in any year since 2019. and the united nations says, god, this is the most dangerous place in the world to be a child. children do not start or complex. they are absolutely powerless to stop them. but they suffer extraordinarily during these times either because they're directly impacted or because of all the services they depend on are disrupted beyond the physical injuries. parents say many children are shadows for food. they want some work. some still terrified. others unable to speak. israel,

the tax across the occupied territories have permanently changed an entire generation of palestinian children. alexandra buyers, alda 0 for inside story, while at spring in august. now for today show in con eunice in southern guns, i is yusef. how much an advocacy office in the gaza strip for the norwegian refugee council? yusef is also a resident of casa in toronto, as tanya hodge hassan a pediatric intensive care doctor who is quoting guys. she co founded guys of medic voice is a social media account that she has 1st hand testimonies from health care workers in the strip. and a washington dc is alex i it who's the head of humanitarian policy and advocacy at the child t save the children. alex specializes in humanitarian and post conflicts recovery. thanks all 3 of you for joining us on inside story on arch is here, alex from say the children, let me start with you. we will of course,

be discussing in great detail uh the plight of children in guys and what's been happening to them in this conflicts. but i wanted to start with what's happening to children in the occupied westbank. 2 children, including an 8 year old, killed in broad daylight by is really forces. this was caught on camera. it was shocking, shocked. many people. why is this happening? how often is it happening? and how does israel is justified killing an 8 year old? what happened in the past week and in the past and weeks has been absolutely awful and catastrophic and heretic. but we need to also take a step back. and this is what we've seen in the last 7 weeks. is an amplified version of what children in gaza and what children in the west bank going to be occupied palestinian territory as a whole have been experiencing for decades. if you are a 16 year old in gaza, you have experience at least 4 major escalations,

a military blockade where other states dictate when and when you can exit and enter and exit. you have a high likelihood of having at least one family member or an extended relative or a friend killed. if you are critically injured or, or l, you are unable to get medical treatment unless you receive a permit from you is really government. if you are a 6 year old in the west bank, there's a high likelihood that one of your friends or relatives or you yourself, has been arrested, detained, or come in contact with these really military. is there a team member made the alex by these really is to talk it palestinian children whether in guys all the occupied westbank. and i think it's safe to say that this is a core part of the palestinian experience of the experience of a policy and child. these policies impact every aspect of

a child's life in the occupied palestinian territory. all right, uses in guys what, let me come to you more than 6000 children killed in guys over these past 6 weeks, not counting those who are still buried under the rubble and the images and footage of the shell shock children being pulled from under the rubble in gaza or fighting for their lives in, in hospitals, in the gaza strip that are barely functioning, has sadly become common place. can you tell us 1st who these children are? because unfortunately inside the we talk about them in numbers. but these are children who have stories, who had hopes and who, what dreams are getting a 100 percent. there we are the numbers and that goes to reputation on what's happened with out of children and they are being hit by cellphone. dispatch this out on that moment, 7 weeks out of about, around 6000 children have been killed and definitely the other number. definitely

they have dreams. and unfortunately, i agree with that with my colleague. they have seen advertising goes, i have with this more than anyone on this planet. and i think they believe, i believe 5 years old to basically for example, i mentioned in my, you don't that either is why years old us here with this like skate asians or was more the age. that's what to make us getting different kinds of uses and put them in front of our children and not to provide them with any means protection. and that's so the situation of the whole, the connection here. yeah. use of as a father, you are a humanitarian worker, of course, but as a father of young children in gaza, tell us about what it's been like for you these past 8 weeks for you and your children. what do you tell them? what do they tell you? yeah, again, i was about to mentioned that we feed, use use in front of our because we cannot provide them with anything. any i do. i

mean i hope that anyone can be in this situation. be that feeling use this as a father in front of you with children. imagining my thoughts out of having can understand the difference between a messiah or attention, and that's what they witness. and that is, makes it more expensive. and, and this is so unfortunate. yeah. even us as far those we cannot find any means of many print, anything different to attend and just trying to make fake. i don't know if they justifications for them or what's happening at the housing, but unfortunately, we cannot succeed with more and more with that previously when my children with young again and i'm about to have 21 war and gaza, i was able to convince my list of doors that this is on what you are hearing is from the side core. my roads but doesn't work anymore. our house of shaking is 7 weeks and it's nothing. no, no. i think i believe i need to have the about 5 years. don't understand what's going on around them. understand them uniform. now understand the difference between different types of apartments, right. that is extreme. nissan dr. tania. let me bring you into the conversation

you've worked in gaza. you are in constant contact with the medics and guys. and you know, one of the fathers that we've interviewed here on algebra said something very poignant and hot breaking. and that was, he said, it's a curse to be a parent in gaza. talk to us about the impact of this particular war. again, this is not the 1st conflict as use of was saying that some of these children have experience, some of them of experience, 5 conflicts already in their lives. what is the impact of this particular war on gaza on the children there? thank you very much. um, you know, in, in our work uh, as pediatricians, and particularly as intensive care doctors, we spend a lot of our time with the parents. uh for home. these children are the center of their universe. and one of the things, obviously that's most important is the parents ability to protect their children.

and that is a core part of their identity as a parent. and as uses mentions, it's are really heartbreaking to see parents going through an experience where they cannot provide any of what they see is there a rule, this parents be its physical protection, shelter, food. these are all things that are been stripped from the ability of parents and also, and it's, it's heartbreaking to see. and for children, i mean, one of the surgeons in indonesian hospital said it, what can i tell you about the injuries we see, they're strictly severe. we start wishing for that for ourselves and the patients because it's more merciful at children with extremely severe injuries beyond imagination. and i want to take a minute just explaining what some of these injuries are like because the children are not only experiencing them, but they're also seeing their loved ones under the rubble,

in the hospitals being extracted from the destruction around them. in this, in this situation. and so they see these horrific injuries in front of their, their eyes on their own bodies as on the bodies of the people who protects them. what is it right, that doctor has a doctor tania providing intensive care to children in this context that you've described and you know, how do the children cope being injured and ill and it, when, in many cases they've lost their, the parents have lost their families. oh yeah, certainly um, so what is it like caring for them? i mean they need to make sense of what's happening around them. why didn't one of our colleagues a few days ago describes a child's coming in with shrapnel? so that's the, the fragments from explosion in his eyes and asking the emergency medicine doctor, am i still alive or is this the voice of having no,

they have to make sense of what's happening around them. as you said, many of them have been left alone. they're in the eyes. you, they wake up, they're injured, they're in pain, they ask the doctor's a further family. they call over and over again. mama baba, they call for the names of their siblings and their siblings on their, their families are there and the medical team is, is tasked with the responsibility of telling them eventually actually you are, you have been left in this world alone. and i know that is not a unique situation. i can give you a statement text message after text message of examples of children in the intensive care units in the emergency departments that have been left alone. right? we know as of the 11th of december, that at least 17000 children in the gaza strip has lost at least one of their parents. alex mean? yeah, it is hot breaking. i mean, really, alex, let me come to you and perhaps ask you to react to what dr. tania was describing

that and, and why? why have we seen so many children killed in this culture, exotics, and what is the impact quit? well, of course they are the injuries of all of these children, but what is the impact long term of being in such conditions of such suffering, such injuries and hot break? they must be a huge psychological impact. and trump is absolutely what dr times has just described is horrific. it's. it's unfathomable. i, you know, i've been working in the humanitarian sector for over a decade. and what i've seen over the past 7 weeks, i haven't, i have not seen before to this level. i mean, we know that most of the attacks where people have been killed haven't occurred in their own homes. and so it's no surprise that so many children have been killed and the impact of mental health impact is immense. i'll go back to, you know, the situation before october 7th, save the children enough to study on the mental health of children and gaza and

found that the majority suffered of severe depression. nightmares. bed waiting. uh, some of them had uh, a thoughts of self storm. they had no hope for the future, but the interest community hasn't set a hope for the future. they haven't sent that message. and so it's no surprise that this is how children in got the feel uses, talk to us about the impact of how the impact on the families and communities of these children and how devastating it is. you've described what you know, you've lived through with your own children. what is the impact on, on the family structure? in god? children are mainly the future of the society as a whole. and imagining these children, no gods, but doesn't have any view in the horizon for the future, then it's,

it's of its focus for them. and i think it's, it's a catastrophe in terms of family and society in general. it's a 2nd to us, different situation here. unfortunately, in this situation that we are living in difficult circumstances around does doesn't give us a chance to get into it. and the need to think about the children right? industry to a we come up as possibilities as we had having on this madness around us. doesn't give us the chance, so would that be to provide what's needed to our children? and you said we'd heard what we've heard. reports use different. maybe you can confirm this for us, and this is not the 1st time. yeah. we've heard reports of families having to split up their children are separating them so that not all of them are wiped out in one asked like writing their children's names on their arms. i mean it's, it's really on 5 and mobile. did you ever think having worked in, in this humanitarian field for so long with this that and yeah, i mean, this is,

was unacceptable. and i, we did it imagine that we will live through this as a beginning. and yes, we see in these kinds of cases and unfortunately i because they have this through for the human setting. bose, i with this, for example, i'm going to tell you a story to find out who is 15 years old, who came from the city to the south alone. he's one of his family have been white out from the city that is the message or destination. all of them have been can. and he's on our company and i combined with anyone i've gone through, he's living in the one of the northwest centers. i don't one uh i cannot even see with my system and i left she was now without anyone know from his entire family living in a little alone. and imagine someone like how that, how is going to think about the future. it is unimaginable. dr. tania i wanted to ask you about the disease is now w h o has one that more people could die in guys from diseases than actual, than the actual bombing. what sort of, of diseases are children in guys are facing,

experiencing right now? and how are they being treated? so thank you and, and just tying that to the mental health question um, one of one of our colleagues and guys said that they felt helpless in front of children, that they cannot provide them with psychological services at the moment. or because the children aren't ready for, for psychological support when they don't have basic security. safety basic needs such as drinking food, the living conditions at the moment or are horrific. we know that about over 80 percent of the causes of population is internally displaced. about half of that will be children, they are living from shelter to shelter just this morning. i received a message from a surgical colleague in garza saying that they, they, she was, she was going around with a team that was looking at the situation and geo and said that they came across a tent were a family,

had built this nation shift tend after going shelter to shelter and being told that every single shelter that there's not even room for them to pitch a space in the courtyard. so now they're living in the winter in attends. she said people to for out orders for even attend of sardines. they don't have access to clean water this, this, this particular uh, extended family and this tend setup had no access to the bathroom, no access to running clean water. we know that as a sanitation plans are not functioning without fuel, and as a consequence, there is no safe way to dispose of sewage. same is true for all the dead bodies that have not been able to be buried. this is, 1st of all, a horrific image, but it's also a huge public health disaster. we know that there has been outbreaks of respiratory diseases, so long diseases are long infections have been outbreaks of diarrhea,

disease illness. one of my colleagues was worried even about cholera, but said that there's no mechanism to confirm. it's actually color because they have no texting capabilities where he is right now in a very crowded population like this without access to clean water or sanitation. this is, i mean it is a public health catastrophe, right? we'll kill more people than anything that we can imagine alec and unfortunately we're still at the point where we're defending a ceasefire. i know and, and beyond a ceasefire, this is what we're left with. we're left in it with a situation that will kill children and families in 1001 ways. alex, you your thoughts about what doctor, tanya said there and why? why are these really doing this? alex? we were really scared of what's to come in the next couple of weeks. what,

what dr. tania described in the south. i mean terrific conditions, no access to clean water. fuel is still being limited. so this is something that we have continued to advocate for, you know, we, according to monitoring agencies, long would not be able to solve all of these problems. we need services to resume, we need actual humanitarian access to provide assistance to children in the west bank. the situation is also just catastrophic policy, and children are the only children in the world that are systematically detained and prosecuted in military courts that i mean they're, they're not treated as children there, right? just children are not respected. we've heard in the media and in other reports over the last few weeks that a children who were in, in, in these detention facility space even harsher conditions and before. and we have

been told by children who have been any specialties in the past. and he's in detention, that they're often beaten at the point of arrest that they're injured, that they are deprived of, of food and water some times that they are put in solitary confinement. right. um, so onyx any actually what, what, what should the international community be doing to protect these children? what strategies or agencies like your save the children considering that are effective that could expect to protect the smell is still processing in children moist activity in guys that the, the priority of course is going to be the basics, access to water, food medical assistance. but there's only so much humanitarian agencies can do. this is p monitoring systems is not going to solve the issues. we need the international community to hold a fellow un member states to count to resolutions to human rights treaties.

mean that is where it has to start and we need root causes to be interest as well. okay. and gaza. humanitarian assistance is not going to do. we don't, we need services to actually resume a c spot and a permanency spire as well. use of that. let me ask you to do. yeah. thank you, tanya. let me ask you some free cuz we're running out of time use of what would you like to see the international community doing today to save the children. those who have survived need help. how. what would you like to see happen to help these children rebuild their lives and have a better future? so 1st i, when i go back to the pennsylvania and what you mentioned about the family live in within. i don't know how you are going to pick that from me, but trust me somehow they're lucky. thousands of people are living in the streets in this harness without it, without any means of protection or anything about that. and this is unfortunate the, as i oh, see with never seen homeless people and goes well, but not with city literally coleman to see people receiving in the basement,

sidewalks and whatever you go on. lots of people with forced us to stay inside the hospitals and with this and imagine have been scenes of people who ended on more than that. then our product for the semester community. unfortunately, we don't see any of the action from the international community and we don't see them spending ahead better responsibilities. that's what to us. children for those funds has since day one of the 200 and that's their community and wouldn't lead us or should stand the responsibilities to stop this and that this no uninsured apartment on future or, i mean, i clear the minute in solution for the senior nco's engine around, especially the people in the that's not the, not the 1st order skill isn't that we have with you single flight mode. that 70 is a seed site for the vital invest. nobody's helping, especially in woodson and even when we are providing our road as a humanitarian to help maintain that. but that are the kind of ways and for these children we found often again and again in the cycle of violence. yeah, tough, tiny, i'll give you the last word. how can the world health policy and children those

have survived, rebuilds found lice. so i think the most of the infrastructure to care for children has been destroyed in the gaza strip. everything from 75 percent of the hospitals in the cause of strips as to not and out of 10 classrooms and it costs a strict as the protective mechanism to shelter that uses was talking about the protective mechanism for children have been destroyed. so we have our collective responsibility as humanity to rebuild those things. i'm just going to a medical calling and gaza, sent this message yesterday saying it's a hypocritical rule that turns a blind eye to our children, our rooms and our pain. so i think at 1st we need to humanize because the children got some children, gauze, and families. the way we humanize everybody else around the world. the way we humanize is really children. i think we need to humanize them all. children are equal this year for real children stay the same was right. friction rights for children everywhere, everywhere includes pounced in and children. so i'm just going to end up with

a statement from a nurse a couple weeks back. just kind of really imprints the injustice of all of this. she said, my hope is to die with all the children and not leave them and leave me alone. i cannot live without them, and i do not want to die and leave them here in this unjust world. there is a deep injustice here, and i think we have a collective responsibility to ensure that children are protected everywhere. not just the children that look like us speak like us and our children that we can relate with these children or somebody's everything. and they are exactly like the children and my family and the children in your family. indeed, they are. thank you so much. thank you, alexandra say, tanya hodge us on. you said how much thank you for joining us on inside story today . and thank you to for watching. you can always watches program again, any time by visiting our website that side ologist air dot com for further

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