The numbers chase each other and it is not easy to give certain data. What is certain is that too many children are dying in the war in the Middle East. In the first ten days since the escalation began on February 28, 300 children were killed in the Middle East, with a dramatic average of more than one every hour. Save the Children denounced the massacre: «It is devastating that the air raids in Lebanon caused the death of 83 children and the wounding of another 254, among the almost 300 children killed in the region. It’s not just about numbers: it’s about young lives cut short and children whose futures have been forever marked by war. Airstrikes and forced displacement orders are forcing families to flee en masse. Over 700,000 people (including more than 200,000 minors, ed) would have been displaced in Lebanon, depriving children of almost everything that keeps them safe: their homes, their schools, their communities and the routines that bring stability to their lives. Many have already experienced years of instability and displacement, and this escalation is compounding the trauma they carry with them.” he declared Nora IngdalDirector of Save the Children in Lebanon. «Every war is a war against children, and once again we see them paying the ultimate price for a conflict they neither started nor had a say in. Wars have laws and children must be off-limits in any conflict».
Unicef also denounces the countless violence against childrenwhich war brings with it. According to the latest news, since March 2, the war in the Middle East has been causing the death of 10 children and the wounding of 36 every day. «Widespread disruptions to education have left millions of children out of school across the region, while hundreds of thousands of children have been displaced by incessant bombing. Civilian infrastructure, including hospitals, schools and water and sanitation systems, on which children’s survival depends, have been attacked, damaged or destroyed by parties to the conflict. Nothing justifies the killing and mutilation of children, nor the destruction and interruption of the essential services on which they depend.”.
