Tuesday 29 July 2014

There is no shelter for children in Gaza and Syria

 
Shed lost her sister and three cousins ​​in Gaza.

A boy of 12 years, Syed, leaning against a concrete wall and a piece of blank stare in the direction of the surface of a rough gray.

"When we sit together in the ambulance, I thought he was going to live so that I could feel a little better," Syed said after dropping off her younger brother, Mohammad, to the hospital.

Arriving at the hospital, Mohammad was dead. Israeli bombs have claimed his life.

Similarly, the lives of three cousins ​​who also hit Syed Israeli attack on July 16 when they were playing near the port of Gaza.

At that time, Israel shot twice in an attack action.

Israel says it does not intend to target civilians.

However, Gaza is occupied territory settlement of 1.6 million people. Israeli attacks practically leaves no shelter for the children.

From the side of Hamas, they denied using civilians as shields. But, the BBC watched rockets fired from inside the building and the ground.
  Killed every hour

 
Number of children who died was only increasing in line with the uncertain peace solution.
 
Last week in Gaza, the United Nations noted that one person dies every hour.

Meanwhile, before the Gaza made ​​headlines in the main pages of the mass media, the fate of Syrian children concern.

Playing with tanks, not the toy. Portrait of Syrian children in four years konlfik.

In the war that is now entering its fourth year, millions of children are victims.

They live with hunger and fear. Many of them are forced to live in the besieged territory without supplies of food, beverages, and pharmaceuticals.
"Not the children"

     "The crisis has changed us. Now children understand politics and talk about politics. We have sacrificed for our country."Jalal

Each visit to Syria, I began to realize that children are not just children - crying or smiling.

They are at the forefront, and is able to tell you about the complexity of the conflict they experienced.

For six months, I and Robin Barnwell Syria following six children. Their stories into a picture of the political and social map facing this country - as well as providing an overview of future concern.

"My look is the children," said Ezadine, 9 "But for the moral and humanitarian, I am not (the children). In the past 12 years are considered young, but not now. Now, 12 years old, you must go jihad. "

Another child, named Jalal, said: "The crisis has changed us. Now children understand politics and talk about politics. We have sacrificed for our country."

"I really hate the future," said Daad, 11 "We may live, or we might as well die."