Pioneers on social media platforms circulated a video clip showing a Palestinian boy from… Jabalia camp He lost the ability to speak after being injured in an Israeli occupation bombing of the area.
While he was in the ambulance, the boy tried to explain his condition to the paramedics in incomprehensible words to the point that they thought he had special needs, before they understood that he had lost the ability to speak after the bombing of his area on Al-Zawari Street in Jabalia.
A boy loses the ability to speak after being injured in an Israeli raid on the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip #Gaza_War #video pic.twitter.com/8p9fe3J0vZ
– Al Jazeera Palestine (@AJA_Palestine) October 17, 2024
The incident of the child losing his ability to speak as a result of an Israeli raid represents part of the suffering of children in conflict and war zones, who are exposed to severe psychological and physical trauma that may affect their mental and physical abilities, including the ability to speak.
Loss of the ability to speak may result from a direct physical injury to the nervous system or brain, or as a result of profound psychological trauma. In such cases, treatment is multifaceted and includes providing intensive medical and psychological support to the child to help him recover, in addition to linguistic rehabilitation.
Earlier, many Palestinian activists published a video of a Gazan child, who was released by the Israeli occupation army forces at the Netzarim checkpoint west of Gaza City. He arrived in the southern Gaza Strip in a difficult condition and in shock from the effects of torture. He does not speak, but only draws soldiers carrying weapons on paper.
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According to the United Nations, at least 14,500 children were killed in Gaza as of April 2024, as a result of Israeli attacks. It is estimated that children constitute a large percentage of the victims since the beginning of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, and thousands of women and children have been subjected to serious injuries, in addition to the psychological and health challenges they face due to the harsh living conditions and the absence of basic infrastructure.
Since the sixth of this October, the Israeli army has begun a new military operation in the northern Gaza Strip governorate, and imposed its siege on the Jabalia area, preventing residents from fleeing to neighboring Gaza City, and ordering them to flee only via Salah al-Din Street, which extends along the eastern Gaza Strip from its north to South of it.
This is the third ground operation carried out by the Israeli army in Jabalia camp since the beginning of its war on Gaza on October 7, 2023.
On Thursday, the Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that Israel had committed a new massacre in… Jabalia camp north Gaza Strip After bombing a school housing thousands of displaced people, at a time when a medical source said that 400 martyrs had been killed since the occupation began its military operation in the north 13 days ago.
Al Jazeera’s correspondent quoted a medical source as saying that 22 martyrs and dozens of wounded were killed in the Israeli bombing of Abu Hussein School, which houses displaced people in Jabalia camp.