BRITAIN has been urged assist Gaza’s amputee children as the US-backed ceasefire deal leaves their futures in the hands of warmongers and opportunistic colonialists.

Experts laid bare their plight today after it was revealed that Israel’s onslaught has created the largest number of child amputees in modern history.

Karim Ali, co-founder of the Gaza Sunbirds para-cycling team, which has delivered life-saving aid to Gaza over the past 15 months, told of his heartbreak at seeing amputee youngsters withdraw from the world.

Children make up 800 of the 4,500 amputations in Gaza documented by its Health Ministry since the genocide began.

Mr Ali became emotional as he told the Morning Star of meeting three-year-old Ali after an explosion killed both his parents and left him a double-leg amputee before he was relocated to Italy.

“What shocked me the most when I met him was that he was full of life, he was on an electric wheelchair driving around in circles spraying everyone with water,” said the 25-year-old, himself a member of the Palestinian diaspora.

He met another Gazan amputee boy of around 14 that day during the para-cycling world cup event in Maniago, Italy, last May.

“The difference between them was huge in terms of energy and morale. The biggest feeling I had looking at the children was ‘I hope that that child [Ali] doesn’t lose his glow.’

“It’s truly heartbreaking, heartbreaking and inspiring at the same time, we see the future in them as well.”

Mr Ali is among the front-line workers that risk being sidelined by capitalist and colonialist opportunists in the reconstruction of Gaza, said director of the British Palestinian Committee, Sara Husseini.

Outlining the new battle lines for Britain’s Palestinian movement under the ceasefire, she said: “There will be a lot of plans to rebuild, we have to make sure that Palestinian self-determination is at the heart of that.

“It’s also really important to reject any initiatives that impose reconstruction plans in Gaza which bypass Palestinian communities.”

In the reconstruction of the strip’s destroyed higher education facilities, she warned of “disaster capitalism combined dangerously with settler colonialism,” adding: “There’s a danger of not just profitting but also imposing certain curricula as a form of control.

“This is what civil society needs to do in the UK, to push back on some of those plans that seem positive but have these problematic undercurrents, the same way that economic peace is going to be on the agenda now.”

She added that while attending Palestinian solidarity marches remained important under the ceasefire, “it’s part of a bigger piece of work that needs to continue in their workplaces, schools, trade unions and political groups.

“There’s no normal or status quo — there might be attempts to make it seem that way but I think people are smarter than that.

“We have to keep going to pay tribute to the courage and civic commiment of the Palestinians in Gaza who have endured this unimaginable horror and are still there.”

Gaza is meanwhile at risk of civil unrest — people may stop worrying about where the next bomb will fall, but won’t stop worrying about where the next next meal comes from, said West Bank political analyst Nour Odeh.

She also raised concerns that warmongering Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may have only made the agreement in exchange for strategic military support in the Middle East from incoming US President Donald Trump.

Pointing out the deal is identical to one Mr Netanyahu rejected in May, she said: “They want annexation — that’s what we need to keep an eye on.

“Netanyahu is a strategic man, he understood he needed to give Trump something. [A temporary ceasefire] is an acceptable price to pay for policy objectives including striking Iran. There are a lot of goodies in that list, none conducive to peace in the Middle East.”

Ms Odeh added: “Granted, the position of this [British] government has been better than the one before, but I think a lot more backbone is required.