The World Health Organization warned that currently at least 50,000 pregnant women in Gaza – of which nearly 5,500 will give birth over the next month – cannot access essential health services
Camagüey, Cuba, October 25th.- Students from the University of Camagüey (UC) Ignacio Agramonte Loynaz condemned, in an event held at the headquarters of that house of higher education, the current escalation of the conflict between Israel and Palestine, by advocating for the peace and the protection of human rights.
Gabriela Prince Pérez, president of the University Student Federation of the academic institution, explained that the membership, together with the Latin American and Caribbean Continental Student Organization, carries out intense work on social networks with plenaries, banners, surveys among other initiatives that demonstrate solidarity and respect for life.
The most valuable thing is the affection between people, commented Edvin Giovanny Suárez Zuleta, a student of Agricultural Engineering at the University of Cundinamarca in Colombia, enrolled at UC as part of an internationalization scholarship program.
The young man expressed his rejection of a war that, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, has displaced around 1.4 million residents of the Gaza Strip, more than half of the population, after the latest escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, with a death toll of more than 5,300 since the start of hostilities on October 7.
Yoselin Mayra Choque de la Cruz, who is pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education at the National University of Huancavelica in Peru, thanks to the student mobility program, demonstrated her position against such belligerence, especially because she thinks about the children who daily they become victims.
The World Health Organization warned that currently at least 50,000 pregnant women in Gaza – of which nearly 5,500 will give birth over the next month – cannot access essential health services.
The United Nations Children’s Fund warned that the lives of at least 120 premature babies in hospital incubators in Gaza are in danger due to a lack of fuel in the Palestinian enclave.
(ACN)