More children killed in Gaza than in the whole world in the previous three years?
More children have been killed in Gaza in the past three weeks than the total number of children killed in conflict worldwide every year since 2019.
Source: balkans.aljazeera.net
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Figures released by the NGO Save the Children on Sunday, citing Palestinian health authorities, show that at least 3,324 children have been killed in Gaza since October 7, while 36 have been killed in the West Bank.
According to the UN Secretary General's reports on children and armed conflicts, a total of 2,985 children were killed in 24 countries in 2022, 2,515 in 2021 and 2,674 in 2020 in 22 countries, the organization said.
"The death of one child is too many, but these are grave violations of epic proportions," said Jason Lee, Save the Children's director for the occupied Palestinian territory.
"A ceasefire is the only way to ensure their safety. The international community must put people before politics – every day spent in conflict leads to the death and injury of children. Children must be protected at all times, especially when they seek safety in schools and hospitals."
The statement was issued as Israel moves forward with expanded ground operations inside Gaza as heavy aerial bombardment continues.
On Friday, the entire Gaza Strip experienced an almost complete breakdown of communications in what new reports described as a night of pure terror and some of the fiercest fighting since the war began.
Another 1,000 children are reported missing in Gaza and may be under the rubble. Children make up more than 40 percent of the more than 8,000 people confirmed to have been killed in Gaza.
Since the beginning of the war in Gaza, more than 6,000 children have been wounded. In total, at least 1,400 Israelis and foreign nationals were also killed in Israel, in a surprise attack by Hamas on October 7.
Israel has imposed a total siege on the Gaza Strip, tightening a blockade in place since 2007, cutting off all food, electricity, fuel and water supplies and allowing only small amounts of aid through the Rafah crossing with Egypt since 21 October.
A lack of electricity, as well as a shortage of fuel for generators, forced hospitals to suspend their work, and the health ministry declared Gaza's health system in a state of "total collapse", further endangering the lives of children, including babies in need of intensive neonatal care”.
Hospitals targeted
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The Israeli army stepped up attacks near Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City on Sunday, after ordering its "urgent" evacuation.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said on Sunday it had received "serious threats" from Israeli forces to "immediately evacuate" Al-Quds Hospital in the Tal al-Hawa area of Gaza City. Attacks near the hospital continued throughout the day.
"There is no police, army, nothing in the hospital. There are only thousands of Palestinians here, many of whom have lost their homes. Thousands more are seeking refuge in United Nations schools," said the director of this hospital.
"Israel is targeting every building around Al Quds Hospital. Why is that? Nobody knows."
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said the hospital was currently treating hundreds of injured patients. About 12,000 displaced civilians, most of whom are children and women, sought refuge in the hospital building.
"We repeat, it is impossible to evacuate hospitals full of patients without endangering their lives," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director of the World Health Organization, said on Twitter.
Palestinians blamed Israel for the October 17 Al Ahli hospital explosion that killed nearly 500 people. Israel has denied responsibility for the attack.
Fake Tom,
You avoid the reality with your fake identity and empty-headed words.
Tell everyone who you really are, coward.
(Betsy Lalich, 1 November 2023 21:47)
Peggy,
The real horror is that Hamas celebrates death, not life and teaches its children to kill, as they hide behind them, in their murderous attacks.
(Betsy Lalich, 1 November 2023 14:19)
This is absolute horror. Innocent children being killed in such numbers is something that has to be stopped.
How terrifying for adults, let alone children. How will they cope with this even if they survive?
Please God, intervene.
(Peggy, 1 November 2023 04:44)
What is the history of Gaza? Initially the Palestinians who were displaced by Israel aka Israel forcibly taking their lands, they were corralled in the Gaza strip. Despite our resident cat lady describing Gaza as a paradise where there were lots of fruit trees etc, the reality is it’s a very small space of land containing over 2 million people who rely on water, energy and food from Israel. People born there could NEVER leave Gaza. The intension here is to bomb the Palestinian infrastructure so they have nothing to return to and the Jews taking Gaza as well.
These are war crimes, but since the US controls the ICC, it only issues a warrant for Putin’s arrest because he ordered the evacuation of children from a war zone.
What sympathy many people had for Jews because of the haulocost etc is now evaporating and the longer this goes on the more people are not going to distinguish between Non Zionist Jews and Zionists. They are now seen as an aggressor committing heinous acts that are on the same level as Nazis.
The average American is way dumbed down to think for themselves. I know since I have spent 2 months travelling the US and Canada from August to early October 2023. Its shocking to see how far the media is controlled in the US and Canada. It reminds me of North Korea.
I was surprised that Amnesty International has labelled Israeli actions as a war crime and Israel's response was, and wait for it, antisemitism LOL. Yes, it’s all antisemitism.
(sj, 31 October 2023 21:54)
This is absolute horror. Innocent children being killed in such numbers is something that has to be stopped.
How terrifying for adults, let alone children. How will they cope with this even if they survive?
Please God, intervene.
(Peggy, 1 November 2023 04:44)
What is the history of Gaza? Initially the Palestinians who were displaced by Israel aka Israel forcibly taking their lands, they were corralled in the Gaza strip. Despite our resident cat lady describing Gaza as a paradise where there were lots of fruit trees etc, the reality is it’s a very small space of land containing over 2 million people who rely on water, energy and food from Israel. People born there could NEVER leave Gaza. The intension here is to bomb the Palestinian infrastructure so they have nothing to return to and the Jews taking Gaza as well.
These are war crimes, but since the US controls the ICC, it only issues a warrant for Putin’s arrest because he ordered the evacuation of children from a war zone.
What sympathy many people had for Jews because of the haulocost etc is now evaporating and the longer this goes on the more people are not going to distinguish between Non Zionist Jews and Zionists. They are now seen as an aggressor committing heinous acts that are on the same level as Nazis.
The average American is way dumbed down to think for themselves. I know since I have spent 2 months travelling the US and Canada from August to early October 2023. Its shocking to see how far the media is controlled in the US and Canada. It reminds me of North Korea.
I was surprised that Amnesty International has labelled Israeli actions as a war crime and Israel's response was, and wait for it, antisemitism LOL. Yes, it’s all antisemitism.
(sj, 31 October 2023 21:54)
Peggy,
The real horror is that Hamas celebrates death, not life and teaches its children to kill, as they hide behind them, in their murderous attacks.
(Betsy Lalich, 1 November 2023 14:19)
Fake Tom,
You avoid the reality with your fake identity and empty-headed words.
Tell everyone who you really are, coward.
(Betsy Lalich, 1 November 2023 21:47)
Peggy,
The real horror is that Hamas celebrates death, not life and teaches its children to kill, as they hide behind them, in their murderous attacks.
(Betsy Lalich, 1 November 2023 14:19)
What is the history of Gaza? Initially the Palestinians who were displaced by Israel aka Israel forcibly taking their lands, they were corralled in the Gaza strip. Despite our resident cat lady describing Gaza as a paradise where there were lots of fruit trees etc, the reality is it’s a very small space of land containing over 2 million people who rely on water, energy and food from Israel. People born there could NEVER leave Gaza. The intension here is to bomb the Palestinian infrastructure so they have nothing to return to and the Jews taking Gaza as well.
These are war crimes, but since the US controls the ICC, it only issues a warrant for Putin’s arrest because he ordered the evacuation of children from a war zone.
What sympathy many people had for Jews because of the haulocost etc is now evaporating and the longer this goes on the more people are not going to distinguish between Non Zionist Jews and Zionists. They are now seen as an aggressor committing heinous acts that are on the same level as Nazis.
The average American is way dumbed down to think for themselves. I know since I have spent 2 months travelling the US and Canada from August to early October 2023. Its shocking to see how far the media is controlled in the US and Canada. It reminds me of North Korea.
I was surprised that Amnesty International has labelled Israeli actions as a war crime and Israel's response was, and wait for it, antisemitism LOL. Yes, it’s all antisemitism.
(sj, 31 October 2023 21:54)
This is absolute horror. Innocent children being killed in such numbers is something that has to be stopped.
How terrifying for adults, let alone children. How will they cope with this even if they survive?
Please God, intervene.
(Peggy, 1 November 2023 04:44)
Fake Tom,
You avoid the reality with your fake identity and empty-headed words.
Tell everyone who you really are, coward.
(Betsy Lalich, 1 November 2023 21:47)
