The Gaza Strip is simply a graveyard for thousands of children, the United Nations has said.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has killed astatine slightest 17,400 children successful Gaza, according to Palestinian officials.
That is 1 kid killed each 30 minutes.
Thousands much are missing nether the rubble, astir of them presumed dead.
The surviving children, galore of whom person endured the traumatic interaction of aggregate wars, person spent their lives nether the shadiness of an Israeli blockade, influencing each facet of their beingness from birth.
Among the documented children killed, determination are astatine least:
- 710 babies beneath the property of one
- 1,793 toddlers (1-3 years old)
- 1,205 preschoolers (4-5 years old)
- 4,205 superior schoolhouse children (6-12 years old)
- 3,442 precocious schoolhouse children (13-17 years old)
Here are immoderate of those children's astir communal names, listed alphabetically from A to Z.
More than 17,000 children person mislaid 1 oregon some parents
by UNICEF
We are witnessing a genocide successful existent time
by Spokesperson for the Defense for Children International - Palestine
Every day, 10 children suffer 1 oregon some legs, with operations and amputations conducted with small oregon nary anaesthesia owed to Israel’s continuing siege
by Save the Children
Without harmless water, galore much children volition dice from deprivation and disease
by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell
Children are much astatine hazard of dehydration, and malnourishment tin further velocity up the effects of having nary water
by UNICEF
Gaza is erstwhile again “the astir unsafe spot successful the satellite to beryllium a child”
by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell