Critics have challenged the accounting of victims of the Israeli Defense Forces’ brutal retaliation in the wake of an October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas, but now Al Jazeera, the first independent news channel in the Arab world, has produced a list of the known names, from more than 11,500 Palestinian children killed during Israel’s war on Gaza.
This is less than half of those killed but it credibly supports reporting.
More than 10,000 children had been killed by Israeli airstrikes and ground operations in Gaza in the first 100 days of violence, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, whose estimates have been deemed credible by Save the Children, various United Nations agencies, and dozens of other independent authorities.
Children in Gaza surviving the violence are enduring unspeakable horrors, including life-changing injuries, burns, disease, inadequate medical care, and losing their parents and other loved ones. They have been forced to flee violence, often repeatedly, with no safe place to go, and face the terror of an uncertain future. About 1,000 children in Gaza have lost one or both of their legs, many having them amputated without anesthetic, and will require a lifetime of medical care.
“The war has affected us so badly. We had to leave our homes and couldn’t do anything,” said one 11-year-old girl in Rafah in the south of Gaza. “We learned many things during the war, like how important it is to save water. I hope the war ends, and we live in peace and safety.”
More than 40% of those killed in Gaza since the attack on Israel and escalation of violence in the occupied Palestinian territory began on 7 October are children.
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