{"id":290457,"date":"2025-03-24T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=290457"},"modified":"2025-03-21T09:27:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T09:27:51","slug":"gazas-silent-epidemic-of-amputee-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/03\/gazas-silent-epidemic-of-amputee-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza\u2019s Silent Epidemic of Amputee Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_290458\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/gaza-children-amputees.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-290458\" class=\"wp-image-290458\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/gaza-children-amputees.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/gaza-children-amputees.webp 760w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/gaza-children-amputees-300x200.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-290458\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gaza children amputees.\u00a0 Al24 News<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>Gaza has the world&#8217;s highest number of child amputees per capita and has been rendered incapable of taking care of them by the Israeli genocidal ethnic cleansing.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>15 Mar 2025\u00a0<\/em>&#8211;\u00a0It has been two months since the ceasefire started in Gaza. Palestinians are still being killed by the Israeli army, but the relentless bombardment has stopped \u2013 at least for now. Much-needed aid that was allowed into the Strip was cut off two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>What entered in the previous month and a half could hardly resuscitate the collapsed healthcare system in Gaza. So many hospitals and clinics have been destroyed, especially in the north, that humanitarian organisations have had to set up tents to provide basic care for hundreds of thousands of survivors. The medical supplies that came in are already running out.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_290459\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/gaza-children-amputees2.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-290459\" class=\"size-full wp-image-290459\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/gaza-children-amputees2.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/gaza-children-amputees2.webp 480w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/gaza-children-amputees2-300x168.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-290459\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gaza children amputees &#8211; BBC<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2025\/3\/15\/gazas-silent-epidemic\" >TO CONTINUE READING Go to Original &#8211; aljazeera.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>15 Mar 2025\u00a0&#8211; Gaza has the world&#8217;s highest number of child amputees per capita and has been rendered incapable of taking care of them by the Israeli genocidal ethnic cleansing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":290458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[554,1854,1199,87,865,88,427,965,886],"class_list":["post-290457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide","tag-children","tag-crimes-against-humanity","tag-ethnic-cleansing","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-israel","tag-palestine","tag-war-crimes","tag-zionism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290457"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290637,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290457\/revisions\/290637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}