Children Pay the Price of the War in Gaza: More than 21 Thousand Children Lost Their Lives

Although international humanitarian law protects children, this protection finds no response for either babies or children in the Gaza Strip.

In the region where Israel staged its war crimes, babies and children pay the heaviest price of war with their tiny bodies.

21 thousand 745 children lost their lives

The report published by the Human Rights Protection Center on child deaths in the third year of the attacks strikingly reveals the brutal impact of war on tiny bodies.

According to the report, 21 thousand 745 children under the age of 18 have died and 46 thousand children have been injured in the Gaza Strip since October 2023, when Israel started its attacks.

Of the 46 thousand children in question, 11 thousand lost their limbs and were amputated due to their injuries and medical insufficiency.

123 children died due to hunger

The bombs falling from the sky, where they could not even fly a kite, stole the lives, hopes and peace of children.

Unlike their peers around the world, where parents struggle to sleep peacefully, children in Gaza have not been able to sleep safely even for a single night for three years.

In addition to the sounds of warplanes carrying out air strikes and the fires caused by suddenly falling bombs, hunger also disrupted the sleep of Gaza children; Moreover, this hunger took away their lives.

The Tel Aviv administration, which has not only used bombs to massacre people in the genocide it has been carrying out since October 2023, has also implemented a systematic starvation policy in the region.

At least 123 children have died due to hunger in Gaza, where the humanitarian crisis has deepened as a result of Israel's continuous attacks as well as its heavy blockade, preventing the entry of basic food and medical supplies.

293 newborns lost their lives

While more than 1000 of the more than 21 thousand children who lost their lives were babies whose lifespan did not exceed 12 months, newborns also fell into the grip of death.

In the Gaza Strip, where deaths extend to newborns, 293 babies have said goodbye to the world they have just arrived in since October 2023, unable to withstand the tragedies brought by the war.

The little ones who opened their eyes in a war environment died in the middle of a tragedy due to reasons such as malnutrition, lack of oxygen, and freezing to death.

300 thousand children suffer from malnutrition

In Gaza, where children's right to life was taken away, those who survived were forced to struggle with hunger and malnutrition.

The report stated that approximately 300 thousand children under the age of five suffer from malnutrition.

Finally, the report called on the international community to conduct an independent and transparent investigation into the war crimes committed by Israel and the lives it took in the Gaza Strip, where all kinds of laws were violated for children, the weakest and most sensitive link in the struggle for life.

A call was made to take action to ensure that the necessary food supplies and medicines are provided and that humanitarian aid enters the region in order to prevent more children from dying and more casualties.

In addition, it was emphasized that sick and injured children should be removed from the region for treatment abroad.

More than 74 thousand people have died and more than 175 thousand people have been injured in Israel's attacks on the Gaza Strip since October 2023. It is stated that there are still thousands of bodies under the rubble.