{"id":87359,"date":"2023-12-25T02:17:59","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T02:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.estaql.com\/israel-hamas-war-the-impossible-conditions-for-children-born-into-conflict-world-news\/"},"modified":"2023-12-25T02:17:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T02:17:59","slug":"israel-hamas-war-the-impossible-conditions-for-children-born-into-conflict-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/israel-hamas-war-the-impossible-conditions-for-children-born-into-conflict-world-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel-Hamas war: The impossible conditions for children born into conflict | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Imagine having not one, but two babies born in the middle of war. <\/p>\n

Lina Hammad gave birth to twins in Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.<\/p>\n

It should be a time of celebration, but the stress of keeping the infants, and two other children alive, is all-consuming.<\/p>\n

The impact of war always hits the most vulnerable.<\/p>\n

Speaking from a damp, cold room in Khan Younis, Lina explains she had a difficult birth and needed anaesthetic and medicine that the hospital didn’t have because of the war.<\/p>\n

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She says the conditions are impossible: “We are sitting on blankets on a cement floor. There are no vaccinations. We need nappies, milk and clothes.”<\/p>\n

There are four children in the family, all of them are sick.<\/p>\n

“It’s cold, the wind comes in and it’s hard for the children,” she says. “They have chest infections and diarrhoea.”<\/p>\n

There’s a gnawing fear among Gaza<\/strong>‘s parents, how do they save their children from the war, hunger and disease that is now ravaging the Gaza Strip?<\/p>\n

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‘Quiet and unprecedented’ in Bethlehem<\/span>
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The aid agency Save the Children says Gaza is now the world’s most dangerous place to be a child.<\/p>\n

More children have died in this war than in all the world’s major conflicts combined over the last three years. It’s staggering.<\/p>\n

Lina can’t even contact her own mother. Like all the enclave’s infrastructure, Gaza’s telecommunications system has broken down.<\/p>\n

As for her children, Lina says: “They are still coughing, I swear they can’t sleep at night. I fear for them. Last night my son was suffocating.”<\/p>\n

Quality of life has plummeted<\/strong><\/p>\n

While Gaza is in the grips of a man-made humanitarian catastrophe, in the other Palestinian territory – the occupied West Bank<\/strong> – tension is boiling.<\/p>\n

Palestinians say Israeli<\/strong> arrests, raids and road closures across the West Bank is making life for those living under Israeli military occupation, go from bad to worse.<\/p>\n

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Bethlehem praying for a ceasefire this Christmas as war rages on<\/strong><\/p>\n

Israel says its military action in the territory is targeted at armed fighters, Palestinian militant groups and rioters.<\/p>\n

The UN reports that this has been the deadliest year on record for Palestinians across the West Bank, by miles.<\/p>\n

According to the agency’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), 457 Palestinians have been killed in the territory this year.<\/p>\n

Thirty-five Israelis have also been killed in the West Bank.<\/p>\n

In the folds of the hills and olive groves lies the village of Husan, with a population of 10,000 people. It is reeling from the impact of daily raids by the Israeli military.<\/p>\n

Its residents tell Sky News that since the 7 October deadly rampage by Hamas, their quality of life has plummeted to a new low.<\/p>\n

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On Wednesday, 18-year-old Mahmoud Zeoul, was killed during an Israeli raid.<\/p>\n

His family say he was shot dead by the Israeli military.<\/p>\n

In a statement to Sky News the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) said there had been a riot in the village and Palestinians had thrown explosives and stones. It says it’s investigating the death.<\/p>\n

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But his mother, Safaa Zeoul, says: “The (Israeli) army raids the area every day. They occupy our land and it’s natural to resist them.<\/p>\n

“We don’t have weapons but stones. They respond to stones with snipers. They are afraid of stones.”<\/p>\n

When we visited the family, people from the local village came by to pay their respects. Local women told us they are afraid about their sons’ futures.<\/p>\n

Tension is boiling in the West Bank<\/strong><\/p>\n

“What is going on in the West Bank is the reaction to what is happening in Gaza,” Ms Zeoul says.<\/p>\n

“They (the IDF) shoot people indiscriminately.”<\/p>\n

A short drive from Husan is the Christian city of Bethlehem. But there are no Christmas celebrations this year, it’s been cancelled.<\/p>\n

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With war raining down on Gaza, the West Bank’s Christian community is mourning their friends and family displaced and killed in the southern coastal enclave.<\/p>\n

“In 25 years I’ve never witnessed such an incredibly sad Christmas,” Bethlehem resident, Daniella Dukmak, says.<\/p>\n

“This Christmas, we can’t turn a blind eye to what’s going on in Gaza.”<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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