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Thursday, May 02, 2024
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. |
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More Alternate links: Google News | Twitter 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. Comments
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