Nearly 26,000 children - or just over two percent of Gaza's child population - have been killed or injured in Gaza in six months of a war which has decimated the health system and severed access to education, Save the Children said. In the six months since the 7 October attacks in which 33 children were killed, more than 13,800 children have been killed in Gaza and 113 in the West Bank, and over 12,009 children have been injured in Gaza and at least 725 children in the West Bank, according to OCHA and the Ministry of Health in Gaza. UNICEF reported at least 1,000 children have had one or both legs amputated, and about 30 out of 36 hospitals have been bombed, leaving only 10 partially functioning. Israeli forces have also hit ambulances, medical aid convoys and access roads, decimating Gaza's health system and undermining access to healthcare at the time when the 1.1 million children in Gaza need it most.
Perspective: This same nonprofit, Save the Children, expressed concern in a 2021 press release, titled "ONE CHILD KILLED OR MAIMED EVERY 5 HOURS OVER 20 YEARS OF WAR IN AFGHANISTAN," that almost 33,000 children had been injured or killed in Afghanistan over the past 20 years. In the press release linked above, it says 26,000 children have been killed or injured in Gaza in six months.
Does that mean kids killed for throwing rocks at checkpoints don't count? #16 | Posted by jpw
Can I throw rocks at you? That's OK, right?
If you don't like it, maybe you should protest against our own border patrol that fairly routinely opens fire on rock throwers. www.kpbs.org Because rock-throwing is the use of deadly force for which the thrower could be charged with second degree murder when it actually does its job. en.wikipedia.org
Your dislike for the people who are the targets of those rocks doesn't magically turn the rocks into marshmallows.
So, kill all 2,000,000 Palestinians in Gaza? #48 | Posted by truthhurts
Where did I say that?
Hamas hasn't surrendered so the war continues until Israel thinks Hamas is no longer a threat.
That's the way wars work. In this case, the war that the Palestinians started and continue to wage, while hiding behind their own civilians in a half-successful attempt to gain sympathy from gullible suckers and those who hate Jews anyway and were just looking for an excuse to go full anti-Semite.
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