WCNSF — Wounded Child, No Surviving Family... Medical workers [in GAZA PALESTINE] began using it to describe children who arrive at hospitals wounded, but with no surviving family left to find them. Nothing can make the deliberate or indiscriminate harming of children acceptable. There are an estimated 30,000 WCNSF in Gaza, they are not statistics. They are someone's whole world — until there is no one left.

WCNSF — Wounded Child, No Surviving Family GAZA Palestine

 

Zara Zhar

@Boudicca61AD

WCNSF — Wounded Child, No Surviving Family 

This is an acronym being used in Gaza that should never have had to exist: 

Medical workers began using it to describe children who arrive at hospitals wounded, but with no surviving family left to find them. 

And let’s not hide behind vague language. 

These are Palestinian children being wounded and killed amid Israeli military bombardment and ground operations in Gaza to this day. 

UNICEF has repeatedly documented children killed and injured in Israeli strikes, including children sheltering in homes, schools and makeshift shelters. 

Some children survive the strike that destroys their family. 

They wake up in a hospital bed with injuries they may carry for the rest of their lives — and discover that there is nobody left to take them home. 

No mother. 

No father. 

No brother. 

No sister. 

No family member coming through the hospital doors asking: 

“Where is my child?” 

 UNICEF has documented cases in which children were the sole survivors of attacks that killed their entire families. 

This is what WCNSF means. 

Not an abstract statistic. 

Not a political talking point. 

A child who survived — and everyone who loved them did not. 

Nothing can make the deliberate or indiscriminate harming of children acceptable. 

The scale of destruction documented in Gaza demands scrutiny, accountability and protection for civilians. 

A wounded child should have a family rushing to their bedside. 

They should not have to become a five-letter acronym because everyone they loved was killed. 

WCNSF. 

Five letters created because ordinary language could no longer keep up with the scale of the suffering. 

No child should ever have to become a category. 

No hospital should have to need a term for a wounded child with nobody left to come for them. 

Remember the children behind those letters. 

There are an estimated 30,000 WCNSF in Gaza, they are not statistics. 

They are someone's whole world — until there is no one left. 

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The plight of Gaza’s ‘WCNSFs’ – wounded child, no surviving family: "The numbers of Gaza’s dead, wounded and orphaned children are uncertain but there is no question they have borne the brunt of the war"

"“We had a 14-year-old girl [on Wednesday last week] just walk out of some war zone of Gaza City, stunned, mute, bloodied, and she absolutely had no one,” he said. “How many other children are like that right now? We simply don’t know.”" 

"For Gaza’s children, there is no end in sight to the horror. Even the relatively lucky ones – those who have not been wounded and still have their parents – are at increasing risk from disease, starvation and exposure as winter approaches. Many of them are in vast camps of makeshift tents that have sprung up in Rafah and elsewhere in the south."

The plight of Gaza’s ‘WCNSFs’ – wounded child, no surviving family

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/22/the-plight-of-gazas-wcnsfs-wounded-child-no-surviving-family

A chilling acronym used by aid workers reflects the reality of a conflict in which 40% of casualties are believed to be minors

by Nedal Samir Hamdouna and Aseel Mousa in Gaza, and Julian Borger in Jerusalem

Fri 22 Dec 2023 00.00 EST

When Yousef al-Dawi tries to go to sleep in his aunt’s house in Rafah, he thinks about resting his head in his mother’s hands, his father taking him on outings, and most of all, learning to swim with his brother, Mahmoud – taking himself away to a world that no longer exists.

The bomb that fell on his family’s house in Jabaliya at midnight on 23 October killed his whole family and left the 10-year-old pinned under the rubble. It was three days before he regained consciousness in a hospital bed, and his surviving relatives tried to put off breaking the news to him, telling him the rest of his family were in another hospital. Eventually they had to tell him they were all dead.

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