Israel refuses to fuel Gaza

UNICEF officials added that an additional 6,300 children in Gaza have been injured, and approximately 1,000 more are missing. By the organization's estimate, 420 Palestinian children in the Gaza strip have been killed, and continue to be killed, every day since Oct. 7. That's one killed every ten minutes.

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are not permitted to leave, but Israel ordered the 1.1 million Palestinians living in the northern half to evacuate south as they ramped up airstrikes and began a ground invasion over the weekend, against international law.

Gaza is already one of the world’s most densely populated areas — with more than 2 million people living within 140 square miles. The UN described the order as amounting to "forcible transfer" or "collective punishment," both of which are regarded as war crimes.

Israel has also refused to let in emergency fuel, making hospitals unable to care for the estimated 1,000 patients receiving kidney dialysis treatment in Gaza, as well as 130 premature babies in incubators. The United Nations was forced to drastically cut aid efforts in the region as of last week, which were already less than half of 1 percent – or one two-hundredth – of the amount of aid it ordinarily receives.

“And if there is no ceasefire, no water, no medicine, and no release of abducted children?" Elder continued. "Then we hurtle towards even greater horrors afflicting innocent children."