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Gaza children dying as Israel curtails medical evacuations: UN
Children in Gaza are dying in pain for want of emergency treatment as a result of Israeli authorities approving fewer and fewer of them for medical evacuation following the closure of the Rafah crossing, United Nations agencies said on Friday.
Whereas before almost 300 children were being evacuated a month, that number had now declined to less than one per day, UNICEF spokesperson James Elder told a briefing in Geneva.
“As a result, children in Gaza are dying, not just from the bombs and the bullets and the shells that strike them,” he said, describing several cases of children with severe.
“Even when miracles happen, even when the bombs go off and the homes collapse and the casualties mount but the child survives, they are then prevented from leaving Gaza for the urgent medical care that can save their lives.”
Israeli authorities do not say when applications for medical evacuations are declined, and no explanations are given for their decisions, Elder said.