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WhiskeyGrinder

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Wed Jul 30, 2025, 09:26 AM Jul 30

60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names. [View all]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2025/israel-gaza-war-children-death-toll/

Some were killed in their beds. Others while playing. Many were buried before they learned to walk. Gaza is the most dangerous place in the world to be a child, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).

Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during the war. “Consider that for a moment. A whole classroom of children killed, every day for nearly two years,” UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell told the U.N. Security Council this month.

When asked about the death toll among children, the Israel Defense Forces said it “does not target children or other uninvolved civilians. The IDF takes extensive precautionary measures to prevent harm to civilians. The IDF operates in compliance with international law.”

Israel says its aim is to eliminate Hamas after the militant group attacked the country on Oct. 7, 2023, killing about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking 251 hostages. Thirty-eight children were killed and about three dozen were taken hostage. Hamas continues to hold about 22 hostages and the bodies of 27 others.


It's a long scroll. A few photos and details of lives and deaths. And then it says, "So far, you read the names of 100 children who have been killed in the war."
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