War between Israel and Hamas: 5 children die every hour in Gaza

After Hamas’s armed wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, launched a comprehensive attack called “Aqsa Flood” on the morning of October 7, Israel’s attacks on Gaza continue.

Half of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million is made up of children, and the number of children killed in Gaza in the first three weeks exceeded the average number of children killed in the world in the last three years.

According to data from the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 40 percent of the 7,028 Palestinians killed in the ongoing conflicts since October 7 are children.

Children suffered the most in Gaza.

According to data provided by the UK-based non-governmental organization Save The Children, based on health authorities controlled by Hamas, more than 3,000 children were killed in Palestine in 3 weeks.

According to the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza, Israel killed 9,061 Palestinians, including 3,760 children and 2,326 women, and injured at least 32,000 people in the attacks. In this context, 5 children are murdered every hour in Gaza.

Save The Children announced that the number of children killed in Palestine in the last 3 weeks is greater than the number of children killed in one year in conflicts around the world in 2020, 2021 and 2022.

2913 CHILDREN DIE

In the reports of the UN Secretary General titled “Armed conflicts and children”, it was stated that 2,985 children died in 24 countries with conflicts in 2022, 2,515 in 2021 and 2,674 children died in 22 countries in 2020. . While no information on the number of countries was provided in the 2019 report, it noted that 4,019 children died in conflicts around the world.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health published a 212-page report containing the names, identity information and ages of those killed in the Israeli attacks on Gaza between October 7 and 26. Consequently, 2,913 of the 7,028 people killed in Palestine were children.

In Israel’s attacks, 133 babies under 1 year of age and a total of 444 babies under 3 years of age lost their lives.

171 3-year-old children, 1,527 children of primary school age (ages 4 to 13) and 523 children of secondary school age (ages 14 to 17) lost their lives in Israeli bombings.

MOST OF THE INJURED ARE CHILDREN

The WHO announced that a significant portion of the 18,482 people injured in Palestine since October 7 were children.

In the CNN report, based on Israeli officials, it was stated that more than 1,400 Israelis have lost their lives since October 7, 30 of them children.

UNICEF: GAZA BECOMES A CEMETERY FOR CHILDREN

UNICEF spokesperson James Elder said they are concerned about the deaths of children in Gaza, which is under intense Israeli attacks, and that Gaza has become a graveyard for children.

Emphasizing that children in Gaza have been negatively affected by the conflicts that have been ongoing since October 7, Elder said: “We are concerned about the increase in child deaths in Gaza. “Gaza is becoming a graveyard for children,” he said.

Elder reiterated UNICEF’s call for an immediate ceasefire in the conflicts and the uninterrupted delivery of humanitarian aid supplies to Gaza, saying: “Children in Gaza are not only dying because of the bombings, but also because of the lack of medical care they need. “. saying.

THE SITUATION IS TERRIBLE IN UKRAINE

On the other hand, thousands of children were unable to return to their homes in the Kharkiv region, where intense fighting occurred from the first day of the war between Russia and Ukraine and many settlements were destroyed.

According to data from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Ukraine has more than 6 million citizens under the age of 18. More than 1 million of them were registered as “under 5 years old.”

In data published by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), it is stated that 544 of the 9,614 people who lost their lives in the Russia-Ukraine War, which broke out on February 24, 2022, up to 10 September 2023, they were children. It was reported that 1,180 of the 17,535 wounded in the war were children.

According to July data from Save the Children, an average of 3 children are killed or injured every day in the war between Russia and Ukraine.

Data released by Ukraine in June said 19,501 children were forcibly taken to Russia during the war. (AA)