Gaza’s father’s indignation after Israeli strike kills the son’s “search for a sip”

Mahmoud Abdul Rahman Ahmed says his son Abdullah “sought a sip of water” when he took Jerrycans to the family on Sunday morning and headed as usual at one of the water distribution points in the Nuseira Camp, in a central gas.

“This zone was inhabited by displaced people, others who were exhausted by the war, and those who saw the worse due to the imposed siege and restrictions and continued aggression,” Mahmoud said in an interview with a local journalist working for the BBC.

“The children, Abdullah among them, were in a queue with empty stomachs, empty giric and thirsty lips,” he added.

“Minutes after the children and thirsty people from the camp gathered, the combat aircraft bombed these children and the point of water distribution without prior notification.”

The graphic video, shot by another local journalist and checked by the BBC, showed the immediate consequences of the Israeli strike on the street in the new Nusherat camp.

He passes for two men carrying young children before encountering a destroyed structure under which dozens of yellow plastic Jericans are grouped.

Women scream as observers pull a man out of the ruins while others try to help another man covered with blood. Other adults and children are seen lying still nearby.

Al-Avda Hospital in Nusayrat said that 10 people, including six children, were killed at the strike and that 16 others were injured.

Along with Abdullah, they baptized the child, who died as Badr Al -Din Kuman, Sira Khaled Ibrahim, Ibrahim Ashraf Abu Raiban, Ashraf al Start and Lana Ashraf Ashraf al -Gussein.

Asked by the strike, the Israeli military said he was heading for Palestinian Islamic jihad “terrorist”, but “as a result of a technical mistake with the ammunition, the ammunition fell tens of meters from the target.”

The military said “as a result, it was” aware of the allegation of victims in the area “and” regrets any harm to the non -included civilians “, adding:” The incident is being reviewed. “

Mahmoud, however, claims that Israel “intends to convey a message: it will not allow people to drink even the drinking water they crave for.”

He also complained that Abdullah’s dreams and other children would never be realized.

“They looked at reality in the hope of changing and becoming like the other children in the world – practicing their normal role in playing, moving, traveling, eating, drinking and life safe,” he said.

The UN says that the shortage of water in the gas is deteriorating due to the lack of fuel and spare parts for desalination, pumping and sanitary facilities, as well as uncertainty and inaccessibility due to Israeli military operations against Hamas and evacuation orders.

As a result, many people receive less than the emergency standard of 15 liters a day, which represents what the UN calls a “human land crisis”.

“You see children queuing up, on the side of the road, with yellow Jericans every morning, waiting for the daily water truck to come and take their five liters (or) 10 liters, from water used for washing, cleaning, cooking, etc., Sam Rose.

“Every death is a tragedy. This one is especially emblematic, given the circumstances in which it happened. But this is one of many,” he added.

Last Thursday, 10 children and three women were killed while waiting for nutritional supplements in front of a clinic in the nearby city of Deir Al Balah.

The Israeli military said it was aimed at Hamas’s “terrorist” nearby and, as in the incident on Sunday, that he regretted harming all civilians.

“We focus on these incidents, but of course, these were not the only children killed in Gaza (on Sunday),” Rose said. “Every day, from the beginning of the war, on average in the classroom, full of children, has been killed.”

The Executive Director of the UN Children’s Agency (UNICEF) Catherine Russell, in the meantime, called the two incidents “horrifying” and demanded the Israeli authorities to “review the rules of commitment and to guarantee full compliance with international humanitarian law.”

Later this week, the UN Security Council will be convened to discuss the situation of the children in Gaza after a request from the United Kingdom.

However, Israel’s standing representative Danny Danon said that council members would “better put pressure on Hamas to extend this conflict”.

“The children in Gaza are victims of Hamas, not Israel. Hamas uses them as human shields and the UN is silent,” he said.

Mahmoud said Israel should be pressed to end the war.

“We have no power and no power. We are casualties. We are civilians, just like other people around the world and we do not have nuclear weapons or weapons or anything else,” he added.

“This war must stop and so the continued slaughter happens in the Gaza Strip.”