The death toll of children in Gaza is staggering.
Because Israel has decided that the only way to go after Hamas is through the use of indiscriminate bombing of the civilian population of one of the most densely populated areas of the world, the death toll among the children of Gaza is staggering.
More than 10 800 people have now been killed in Gaza, almost 70% of them women and children.
On average, a child is killed every 10 minutes in Gaza.
1.5 million people have been displaced, and are looking for shelter anywhere they can find it. But nowhere and no-one is safe. (World Health Organization)
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.
JOE BIDEN: “I'm sure innocents have been killed, and it's the price of waging a war.”
(Source: The United Nations for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs)
Israel’s use of white phosphorus in military operations in Gaza and Lebanon puts civilians at risk of serious and long-term injuries, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing a question and answer document on white phosphorus. Human Rights Watch verified videos taken in Lebanon and Gaza on October 10 and 11, 2023, respectively, showing multiple airbursts of artillery-fired white phosphorus over the Gaza City port and two rural locations along the Israel-Lebanon border, and interviewed two people who described an attack in Gaza.
White phosphorus, which can be used either for marking, signaling, and obscuring, or as a weapon to set fires that burn people and objects, has a significant incendiary effect that can severely burn people and set structures, fields, and other civilian objects in the vicinity on fire. The use of white phosphorus in Gaza, one of the most densely populated areas in the world, magnifies the risk to civilians and violates the international humanitarian law prohibition on putting civilians at unnecessary risk. (Human Rights Watch)