More than 10,000 children have been killed by Israeli airstrikes and ground operations in Gaza in nearly 100 days of violence, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, with thousands more missing and presumed buried under rubble, Save the Children said.
The latest data from the Ministry of Health in Gaza shows more than 10,000 of Gaza’s 1.1 million children—or 1% of the total child population—have been killed since an attack on Israel on October 7 [1] and the assault on Gaza that has followed. The war will have been ongoing for 100 days as of Sunday, January 14.
About 1,000 children in Gaza have lost one or both of their legs, many having them amputated without anesthesia, and will require a lifetime of medical care.
More than 40% of those killed in Gaza since the attack on Israel and escalation of violence in the occupied Palestinian territory began on October 7 are children.
