ONE PERCENT OF GAZA’S CHILD POPULATION KILLED

Children surviving the war are “enduring unspeakable horrors, including life-changing injuries, burns, disease, inadequate medical care, and losing their parents and other loved ones”, says the report.

One percent of Gaza’s child population killed

After nearly 100 days of war in Gaza, more than 10,000 children – or 1 percent of the total child population on the Strip – have been killed, according to a new report by Save The Children.

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Out of the thousands of injured children, at least 1,000 have lost one or both their legs, the report says. More than 10 children have lost at least one or both legs each day since the war began, with many of the amputations performed without anaesthesia.

“The numbers are not just staggering in the scale and scope, but the actual impact,” Jason Lee from the NGO told Al Jazeera. “These are not just numbers. Every single one of them is a child.”

“About three months into the Ukraine war, the UN had stated that the lives of children had been devastated on a level not seen since World War II. At the time, on average, two children were being killed per day. The average number of children being killed per day in Gaza is well over 100,” Tanya Haj-Hassan, a doctor with Doctors Without Borders, told Al Jazeera.

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