GAZA — Having created what a UN official described last December as “the largest group of child amputees in modern history” over the last three years of their ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, the Israelis are preventing the entry of wheelchairs into the besieged Palestinian enclave, classifying them as potential weapons.
“More than 900 wheelchairs, donated by two Australian charities to help injured children in Gaza, are stuck in warehouses in Jordan due to Israeli restrictions on aid deliveries into the war-ravaged strip,” ABC reported last week.
“Two shipments from New South Wales-based charity Kids on Wheels Alliance arrived in Jordan in February 2025, while a third, from Wheelchairs for Kids based in Western Australia, arrived in October 2025,” it added. “But instead of being delivered to children with severe mobility issues inside Gaza, they remain sitting in storage facilities managed by the Jordan Hashemite Charity Organization (JHCO).”
With nearly the entirety of the Gaza Strip reduced to rubble, these wheelchairs are designed to withstand difficult terrain and can be adjusted as children grow, reducing the need to replace them every few years.
However, the Israelis have blocked their entry for a reason that only their profoundly sick minds could have conjured.
“One informed source, from outside of the region, said the wheelchairs had been blocked because of concerns among Israeli authorities that the wheelchairs could be ‘dual use’ — effectively classifying the civilian items as potential weapons,” ABC reported.
Life-changing injuries
Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people has been defined by its intensive and deliberate targeting of children. In February 2026, UNICEF provided a grim update on the impact of Israel’s genocidal assault on Palestinian children:
In the Gaza Strip, at least 21,289 children have been reported killed as of 3 February 2026; 44,500 children have been injured, including more than 11,000 children with life-changing injuries.
In July 2025, when the Western-funded Israeli savagery against defenceless Palestinians was at its peak, a report by the Global Protection Cluster, a UN-led humanitarian coordination body, revealed that more than ten children were losing one or both legs every single day. — Palestine Will Be Free
