Kites flying alongside smoking bombs. Children dreaming of a cucumber to eat. Entire families wiped off the earth. This is life in Gaza today.
In two decades at the United Nations children’s fund, Australian James Elder has visited Sudan and Somalia, Ukraine and Mozambique. He’s seen war and famine. Never has he seen anything like the horror in Gaza.
Yet after those six months of war between Israel and Hamas – the militant group that has ruled Gaza since 2005, and which Australia deems a terrorist organisation – Gaza’s children are malnourished and paper-thin. Sydney psychologist Scarlett Wong has been in Gaza since mid-March on assignment with Médecins Sans Frontières . She describes a jarring skyline: dozens of colourful homemade kites flying gleefully alongside planes dropping smoking bombs.“There is no comparison to what I have seen,” says Wong. She previously served on assignment for MSF at a refugee camp in Uganda and in Turkey after the 2023 earthquake that killed more than 53,000 people.
Colonel Moshe Tetro, head of Israel’s Coordination and Liaison Administration for Gaza, this week told reporters that Israel believes sufficient aid is entering Gaza every day.Speaking at Gate 96, a new entry point for delivering supplies to northern Gaza, Tetro said: “We are doing everything that we can to enlarge the capacity of humanitarian aid going into Gaza.”Elder counters that aid organisations like UNICEF face “massive unnecessary restrictions, denials and lengthy clearance processes”.
“The catastrophic nutrition situation is man-made. You could fix it within a week if you opened those crossings,” Elder says.
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