The first woman from Türkiye has urged Melania Trump to speak for children suffering in the Israeli war in Gaza.
Emin Erdogan praised the support of the American first woman for children affected by Russia’s full -scale invasion, asking Trump to “expand advocacy” to Palestinians.
In a letter published by Turkish Presidency on Saturday, Mrs. Erdogan said that Gaza became a “children’s cemetery”, telling Mrs. Trump: “We should unite our voice and strength against this injustice.”
It comes United Nations -backed Food Safety experts suffer from a famine in Gaza city. – And the lives of 132,000 children are threatened by malnutrition.
Mrs. Erdogan wrote, “The phrase ‘Unknown child’ written on the shroud of thousands of gooden children opens an irreparable wound in our discretion.”
The letter has asked Mrs. Trump to “show the same sensitivity to Gaza that you have shown to Ukrainian children who have lost their lives in war”.
Mrs. Erdogan also encouraged Mrs. Trump to directly appeal to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to directly appeal to “end the humanitarian crisis in Gaza”.
earlier this month, Mrs. Trump sent a letter to Russian President Vladimir PutinInspired her to consider children, but did not reference to any specific children.
Turkish First Lady usually does not include itself into politics, selecting more often to be active in environmental issues – who has earned her praise from United Nations Secretary -General Antonio Gutres.
But Mrs. Erdogan has written letters to the partners of world leaders in the past, caught in the civil war on behalf of Syrians in 2016 and condemned Israel’s works in Gaza in March.
The letter was published in view of one Report damage in human condition in Gaza,
The Integrated Food Safety Character Classification (IPC) report confirmed an famine in and around Gaza city – warning that more than 640,000 people would face “frightening circumstances” between mid -August and late September.
In Friday’s report, the IPC said that the lack of toll food was specially taken on children – one in three in Gaza is malnourished.
It is also a project that by June 2026, malnutrition will threaten 132,000 children under the age of five.
The Hamas-Interested Health Ministry of Gaza has said that 114 out of 281 people who have died of malnutrition are children.
Israel denied that there was a famine in Gaza. It also accuses IPC experts of being biased, changing their methods to assess famine and using data coming from Hamas. The IPC has rejected this criticism.
The report comes when Israel prepares a new military aggressive for the purpose of occupying the city of Gaza.
Gaza’s Health Ministry has reported 61 deaths in the last 24 hours after the Israeli attacks. It said that as a result of malnutrition in the same period, eight people including two children have been killed.
According to Palestinian news agency Wafa, 19 people were killed in an attack on a displacement camp in the southern city of Khan Unis.
Israel’s army launched a campaign in Gaza on 7 October 2023 in response to a Hamas -led attack on Southern Israel, killing around 1,200 people and 251 others were taken hostage.
According to the Ministry of Health, since then at least 62,122 people have been killed in Gaza.
Most of Gaza’s population has also been displaced several times; More than 90% of homes are estimated to be damaged or destroyed; And healthcare, water, hygiene and hygiene system have collapsed.
