AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Israel has killed an average of 100 children every day in its relentless bombing campaign on the besieged Gaza Strip, a Geneva-based rights group says.
In a report released on Tuesday, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Observatory said it had documented the killing of 1,046 Palestinian children by 16 October and the injury of 3,250, including at least 1,240 children who need specialized medical care.
It also noted that 167 children are estimated to be under the rubble of residential buildings destroyed in Israeli aerial assaults.
The Gaza children “suffer the bitterness of pain, loss and the severity of wounds as a result of Israel’s intense attacks on residential neighborhoods and civilian headquarters, in flagrant violation of child protection rules under international and humanitarian law,” it added.
The rights watchdog further described the children of Gaza as the first target of the ongoing “mass slaughter” against Palestinians.
“Children who had survived the killing, have either lost one or both parents, or their homes … They were forced to migrate with their families to escape Israeli attacks, or for fear of forced eviction warnings,” it continued.
Many children in the Gaza Strip, the rights group said, suffered horrific burns, shell wounds and loss of limbs, as well as the psychological impact and terror.
Hundreds of photos and video clips show the “smashing of children’s heads, and shrapnel penetrating small stomachs and hearts, at a time when the scattered rubble of residential buildings destroyed above the heads of their residents,” it said.
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