{"id":2089,"date":"2025-08-05T12:40:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T12:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/05\/israel-kills-an-average-28-palestinian-children-daily-in-gaza\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T12:40:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T12:40:24","slug":"israel-kills-an-average-28-palestinian-children-daily-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/05\/israel-kills-an-average-28-palestinian-children-daily-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel kills an average 28 Palestinian children daily in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Israel has killed more than 18,000 children since the start of its genocidal war on Gaza.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Approximately 28 children are being killed daily in Gaza due to the ongoing Israeli bombardment<\/a> and its restrictions on the delivery of direly needed humanitarian assistance, according to the United Nations.<\/p>\n

\u201cDeath by bombardments. Death by malnutrition and starvation. Death by lack of aid and vital services,\u201d the UN Children\u2019s Fund (UNICEF) said in a post on X on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Gaza, an average of 28 children a day \u2013 the size of a classroom \u2013 have been killed.\u201d<\/p>\n

The agency stressed that children in Gaza are in urgent need of food, clean water, medicine and protection, adding: \u201cMore than anything, they need a ceasefire, NOW.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Death by bombardments.
Death by malnutrition and starvation.
Death by lack of aid and vital services.
In Gaza, an average of 28 children a day \u2013 the size of a classroom \u2013 have been killed.<\/p>\n

Gaza’s children need food, water, medicine and protection. More than anything, they need a\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/7QIQQ6IAoG<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 UNICEF (@UNICEF) August 4, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Israel has killed more than 18,000 children \u2013 one child every hour \u2013 since the start of its genocidal war on Gaza. At least 60,933 Palestinians have been killed and 150,027 others wounded since October 7, 2023, when Hamas attacked southern Israel.<\/p>\n

In the last 24 hours, at least eight Palestinians, including one child, have starved to death in Gaza. A total of 188 people, including 94 starving children, have died as Israel continues to block aid and kill aid seekers.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor those who survive, childhood has been replaced by a daily struggle for the basics of life,\u201d said Al Jazeera\u2019s Aksel Zaimovic.<\/p>\n

Kadim Khufu Basim, a displaced Palestinian child, said he is forced to support a family of six people because his father is injured and receiving treatment in Egypt.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love playing football. But now I sell cookies. My childhood is gone. Since the war began, we have no childhood left,\u201d Basim told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n

Under international law, children like Basim are supposed to be spared the effects of war.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut in Gaza, these children have suffered the most under Israel\u2019s military campaign. Schools deliberately targeted, water facilities destroyed, food supplies systematically blocked. And the fundamental rights of childhood \u2026 education, play, proper nutrition \u2026 have been weaponised against an entire generation,\u201d said Zaimovic.<\/p>\n

\u2018A graveyard for children\u2019<\/h2>\n

Israel\u2019s war on Gaza is also leaving its psychological scars on children.<\/p>\n

The hair and skin of Lana, a 10-year-old displaced child, turned white almost overnight after a bombing near her shelter triggered what doctors call trauma-induced depigmentation. Lana has become withdrawn, often only talking to her doll, as other children bully her for her appearance.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe talks to her doll and says, \u2018Do you want to play with me, or will you be like the other kids?\u2019 Her mental health is severely damaged,\u201d Mai Jalal al-Sharif, Lana\u2019s mother, told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n

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(Al Jazeera)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cGaza is a graveyard for children today and for their dreams,\u201d Ahmad Alhendawi, regional director of the NGO Save the Children, told Al Jazeera. \u201cThis is an inescapable living nightmare for every child in Gaza \u2026 This is a generation that is growing up thinking that the world has abandoned them, that the world has turned its back on them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Israel has closed Gaza\u2019s crossings since March 2, only allowing 86 trucks of aid into the besieged enclave daily, a figure equal to just 14 percent of the minimum 600 trucks needed each day to meet the basic needs of the population<\/a>, according to data from Gaza\u2019s Government Media Office. The lack of aid has led to an unprecedented famine in Gaza.<\/p>\n

UN experts and more than 150 humanitarian organisations have called for a permanent ceasefire, to allow for aid deliveries and the psychological recovery of what they\u2019ve dubbed a \u201clost generation\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Source: <\/p>\n

Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Israel has killed more than 18,000 children since the start of its genocidal war on Gaza. Approximately 28 children are being killed daily in Gaza due to the ongoing Israeli bombardment and its restrictions on the delivery of direly needed humanitarian assistance, according to the United Nations. \u201cDeath by bombardments. Death by malnutrition and starvation. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}