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Is Israel’s Gaza war the deadliest conflict for children in modern times?
Many more children have been killed in Gaza every day compared with Ukraine, Afghanistan, Iraq and other conflict zones. By far.
Displaced Palestinian children shelter at Gaza's al-Shifa Hospital [Mohammed Al-Masri/Reuters]
Published On 7 Nov 20237 Nov 2023
In late October, the international nonprofit Save the Children reported that the number of children killed in the Gaza Strip over three weeks of Israel’s bombardment had surpassed the annual number of children killed in global conflict zones every year since 2019.
Since then, the number of tiny bodies wrapped in white shrouds and surrounded by grieving family members has only grown as Israel has also launched a ground offensive, adding artillery fire to the destruction unleashed by its missiles.
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Published On 7 Nov 20237 Nov 2023
In late October, the international nonprofit Save the Children reported that the number of children killed in the Gaza Strip over three weeks of Israel’s bombardment had surpassed the annual number of children killed in global conflict zones every year since 2019.
Since then, the number of tiny bodies wrapped in white shrouds and surrounded by grieving family members has only grown as Israel has also launched a ground offensive, adding artillery fire to the destruction unleashed by its missiles.
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Yet as the war rages on a month after it started, even the numbers don’t fully reveal the scale at which Gaza’s children have been killed.
Here is how the deaths compare with some other major conflicts in recent years. All have been horrific and devastating for children. Still, Gaza stands out. Starkly.
Here is how the deaths compare with some other major conflicts in recent years. All have been horrific and devastating for children. Still, Gaza stands out. Starkly.
Gaza:Israel’s attacks have killed 4,104 children in Gaza during the current war, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reports.
These deaths have been reported over one month of violence. That’s comfortably more than 100 children killed every day on average.
Gaza has a population of 2.3 million people living in an area of 365sq km (140sq miles), which amounts to a population density of 6,300 people per square kilometre (16,320 people per square mile).
Children make up 47 percent of Gaza’s population, according to UNICEF.
(al Jazeera)
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