Queen Rania Meets with Save the Children CEO for Update on Children in Gaza

AMMAN — Her Majesty Queen Rania met on Wednesday with the CEO of Save the Children International Inger Ashing, who briefed her on the catastrophic conditions of children in Gaza, where civilians are mere weeks away from famine. 

During the meeting, held at Her Majesty’s offices in Amman, Ashing explained that the situation in Gaza is unlike anything Save the Children International has ever witnessed, and that children are dying from starvation and disease at the highest pace since records began.

The meeting, also attended by Save the Children’s Executive Strategic and Policy Adviser Anita Bay Bundegaard, included a discussion on means to alleviate the destructive impact of the war on the lives of children in Gaza, according to a statement from Office of Her Majesty.

Her Majesty and Save the Children also underscored the need for an immediate and permanent ceasefire, as well as increased aid access by opening additional aid entry points into the Gaza Strip, the statement said. 

Save the Children International, the world’s largest independent child rights organisation, is calling for an immediate, definitive ceasefire, and the resumption of the entry of commercial goods to Gaza.

 It also urges the effective implementation of the provisional measures of the International Court of Justice, which ordered Israel to allow the unfettered flow of aid into Gaza last January.