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Ammon News - AMMONNEWS – HM Queen Rania on Monday urged for urgent aid for the Palestinian citizens in the embattled Gaza Strip, saying that global humanity is "incomplete" when children become victims of military operations.

The Queen called on governments to contribute to the Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA emergency appeal for 34 million dollars to meet the immediate needs of Gaza's innocent civilians, caught up in Israel's onslaught against Hamas.

"Gaza's children, the dead and the barely living, their mothers, their fathers are not acceptable collateral damage, their lives do matter and their loss does count," said the queen, speaking at a joint press conference with UN officials in Amman.

She said "our humanity is incomplete when children, irrespective of nationality, are victims of military operations."

Aid groups have repeatedly warned of a worsening humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, the densely populated territory where most of the 1.5 million residents depend on foreign aid.

Israel denies that there is a humanitarian crisis in the territory where more than 531 Palestinians, including 87 children, have been killed and more than 2,500 others wounded since Israel unleashed lunched a massive offensive on the besieged enclave December 27.

Sigrid Kaag, UNICEF regional director, said the humanitarian crisis due to the current violence in Gaza is hitting children and women most, calling for an "immediate end to the violence" to allow aid.

"The children in Gaza are currently being deprived not only of the basic human rights any human being should enjoy but are also being denied the fundamental rights specific to children," he added.