By Quds News Network
Gaza (Quds News Network)- Over 18,800 children are among the more than 62,000 Palestinians killed by Israel since the start of its genocide in Gaza nearly two years ago, amid warnings that no place is safe for children in the enclave with relentless bombardment, forced displacement, and starvation.
“Gaza is becoming a graveyard for children,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres as early as November 6, 2023.
On Tuesday, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said that no place is safe for children in the enclave. UN-run schools have become shelters for “hundreds of thousands of people” in Gaza amid constant Israeli bombardments that have levelled homes, UNRWA said.
Citing the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, UNRWA noted that in the past five months of the war, since Israel violated a ceasefire deal and resumed its assault, “an average of over 540 children have been killed every month, per reports”.
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According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, over 18,800 children have been killed in Israeli attacks since the start of the assault in October 2023.
122 children and infants have died due to malnutrition and starvation since the war began, as Israel continues to block aid from entering the enclave, including food, medicine, and fuel.
According to the Ministry in mid-July, more than 900 children were killed by Israel before their first birthday.
Many were killed in their beds. Others while playing. Some were buried before they learned to walk.
Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during the Israeli assault. “Consider that for a moment. A whole classroom of children was killed, every day for nearly two years,” UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell told the U.N. Security Council.
22 August 2025
Source: countercurrents.org