GAZA: 3,195 children killed in three weeks surpasses annual number of children killed in conflict zones since 2019 | Save the Children International
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The number of children reported killed in Gaza in just three weeks has surpassed the annual number of children killed across conflict zones

Since October 7, more than 3,257 children have been reported killed, including at least 3,195 in Gaza, 33 in the West Bank, and 29 in Israel, according to the Ministries of Health in Gaza and Israel respectively. The number of children reported killed in just three weeks in Gaza is more than the number killed in armed conflict globally – across more than 20 countries – over the course of a whole year, for the last three years.

  • avater@lemmy.worldEnglish
    817·
    1 year ago

    Save the Children, in line with OCHA updates, is currently relying on data from the Israeli Ministry of Health for casualties in Israel and from the Gaza Ministry of Health for casualties inside Gaza. Due to the current situation, information and numbers provided by both ministries cannot be verified independently.

    important note, since Gaza’s ministry is run by the Hamas and Israel could play those numbers down.

    • TinyPizza@kbin.socialOP
      105·
      1 year ago

      That is refuted already down the page, but here you go. From the AP:

      “The numbers may not be perfectly accurate on a minute-to-minute basis,” said Michael Ryan, of the World Health Organization’s Health Emergencies Program. “But they largely reflect the level of death and injury.”
      In previous wars, the ministry’s counts have held up to U.N. scrutiny, independent investigations and even Israel’s tallies.

      Not that I believe you care, as you attempt to lessen the deaths of scores of children, which certainly is gross!

    • OniiFam@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      53·
      1 year ago

      Hamas would kill their own people on purpose and blame it on Israel. It really doesn’t help, also, that Hamas also counts all combatant deaths as Civilian deaths.