17 thousand children orphaned in Gaza, hundreds of parents childless; Israel-Hamas war continues

Gaza Children Killed Thousands of people have lost their lives in the tragedy of the Hamas and Israeli war going on for the last ten months and lakhs of people have been injured and displaced. The death toll in Palestine has reached close to 40 thousand.

On one side are the figures of those who lost their lives and were injured in the war, on the other side are the crying children who have been separated from their parents. After more than 10 months of war with Hamas, the continuous bombing by Israel has destroyed large families. It has separated parents from children and children from parents or siblings.

One such survivor of the war is a three-month-old child named Reem Abu Haya. Her family has died but she survived the Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip late Monday night. Another such attack resulted in the loss of Mohammad Abuel Komasan's wife along with his four-day-old twins in the attack.

Some of the children who survived the attacks are so young that they don't remember their lost ones. A house near Khan Younis was destroyed in an Israeli attack late Monday night where 10 people died. The little Abu Haya's parents and five siblings were killed. Besides, this toll adds parents of three other children who were killed. Four children were injured in the attack.

Abu Haya's aunt, who survived the attack, said, "Since morning we have been trying to feed Abu milk, but he is not drinking because he is used to his mother's milk."

This is not the story of just one child Abu Haya in Gaza, but thousands of children like Abu Haya have become orphans without parents, and parents have become childless. But in the midst of this, no one knows when the war going on between Gaza and Israel will stop.

The United Nations estimated in February this year that about 17,000 children in Gaza are now orphans. Since then this number has been increasing continuously.