At least 203 children who died were under the age of 12
Gaza City: At least 296 Palestinian children and adolescents have been killed since Israel launched its offensive in the Gaza Strip against Hamas on July 8, the UN said on Sunday.
The toll breaks down to 187 boys and 109 girls, with at least 203 of them under the age of 12.
Palestinian Salwa Shabat, right, accompanied by some of her children,
Huda, left, Ahmed, bottom left and Anas, weep as they inspect damages
upon returning to their home, destroyed by Israeli strikes in the town
of Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip, on Tuesday. (Photo: AP)
Backdropped by a picture of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat,
Palestinian Anas Shabat, 10, weeps as he inspects damages upon
returning to his family house, destroyed by Israeli strikes in the
town of Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip, on Tuesday. (Photo: AP)
Palestinians inspect damages of the Nada Towers at a residential
neighborhood in the town of Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, on
Tuesday. (Photo: AP)
Palestinian medics treat a baby wounded in an missile strike in Rafah,
in the southern Gaza Strip, on Monday. (Photo: AP)
In this Monday, Aug. 4, 2014 file photo, mourners gather around the
graves of members of the Najam family, killed overnight in an Israeli
strike in Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip. (Photo: AP)
Palestinians salvage what they can of their belongings from the rubble
of their destroyed apartment in a building hit by an Israeli strike in
Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, on Monday. (Photo: AP)
Palestinians gather around the lifeless body of Raghad Masoud,
34 months, who was killed in an Israeli strike, after she was laid in a
freezer as the hospital morgue was full at Rafah refugee camp, in
southern Gaza Strip, on Monday. (Photo: AP)
Sally Ihjelah sits next to her newborn sister Gaza Touqawem, or Gaza
Fights Back, at a U.N.-run school where their family took refuge in
Gaza City on Sunday. (Photo: AP)
A relative carries the lifeless body of a child during the funeral of
members of Al Ghoul family in Rafah refugee camp, southern
Gaza Strip, on Sunday. (Photo: AP)
Displaced Palestinian children peak from under a shop door, where
their family is taking shelter in Gaza City. (Photo: AFP)
Palestinian children rest on the floor in a United Nations school where
dozens of families have sought refuge after fleeing their home in fear
of Israeli airstrikes. (Photo: AP)
Palestinian youths list the names of the children who were killed in
the ongoing Israeli devastating military assault on the Gaza Strip.
(Photo: AFP)
A Palestinian child receives treatment at Kamal Edwan hospital in
Beit Lahia. (Photo: AFP)
Palestinian children stand on the yard of an United Nations (UN) school
in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, where they found refugee with
their family after fleeing their home in an area under heavy Israeli
bombardment in the besieged Palestinian territory. (Photo: AFP)
A picture taken on August 3, 2014, at the morgue in Rafah in the
southern Gaza Strip shows the bodies of a baby and two children
lying in an ice-cream freezer, who died along with other members
of al-Ghul and Abu Jazar families after their houses were hit by
an Israeli military strike. (Photo: AFP)
Palestinian children affected by the war attend a group class as part
of the United Nations community mental health programmes in the
Gaza Strip. ‘To prevent children from processing and thinking about
all these issues we try to distract them, to help them live some joy,
to have a little fun inside the shelter’, said psychiatrist Dr Iyad
Zaqout, who manages the programme. (Photo: AFP)
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