Italy’s Defense Minister Guido Crozeto has announced that 100 Palestinian children from the Gaza Strip will be transported by plane and ship in the coming days and treated in hospitals.
Crozet said the first 30 children will be flown in from Egypt. A further 30 children will arrive in Italy with their families at the end of January on the warship Vulcano, which will depart from the Egyptian port of El Arish.
Crozet did not say when or how the remaining 40 children would be transferred.
Israeli forces declared full-scale war after 1,200 people were killed and 253 were killed when militants from the Palestinian-controlled Islamist group Hamas crossed the border into towns and bases in southern Israel in the Gaza Strip on October 7. More than 25,700 Palestinians have been killed since it began. hostage.
Israeli forces have killed 11,000 children since they began attacking the Gaza Strip on October 7.
A statement from the Gaza government media office said that 11,000 children and 7,500 women lost their lives during the 108 days of Israeli attacks on Gaza.
It said 7,000 people (70% of them women and children) were still buried under rubble or missing in Gaza, with 25,925 bodies hospitalized and 63,000 injured. ing.
In the Israeli attack, 70,000 homes were completely destroyed, and a total of 290,000 homes were damaged and rendered unusable.
Regarding Israeli attacks targeting the medical sector, 337 medical workers and 45 civil defense personnel were reported killed.
Since October 7, 119 journalists have been recorded as having lost their lives in Israeli attacks in Gaza.
Israeli forces have detained 99 medical workers and 10 journalists, and 2 million people have been evacuated in the Gaza Strip, which has a population of 2.3 million.
It pointed out the inhumane conditions in the accommodation facilities where Palestinian exiles took refuge, and said that as a result of the evacuations, 400,000 cases of infectious diseases and more than 8,000 cases of hepatitis A had been discovered.
It is said that 60,000 pregnant women and 350,000 people with chronic illnesses are at risk due to a lack of medical care in Gaza.
It was also recorded that Israeli forces destroyed 140 state buildings and 99 schools and universities, while 295 schools and universities were partially damaged.
The number of injured people requiring treatment outside the Gaza Strip stands at 11,000, highlighting that 10,000 cancer patients are at risk of death due to inadequate medical care.
Israeli forces damaged 253 mosques in the Gaza Strip, 161 of which were completely destroyed, and three churches were also targeted and destroyed.
Israel also targeted 150 medical facilities in the Gaza Strip, disabling 53 health centers and 30 hospitals, and disabling 122 ambulances.
Israel also targeted Palestinian cultural heritage sites, reportedly destroying 200 historical sites in the Gaza Strip.
The statement also highlighted that since October 7, Israeli forces have attacked Gaza with more than 65,000 tons of explosives, AA wrote.
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