{"id":16585,"date":"2023-12-04T07:51:22","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T07:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=16585"},"modified":"2023-12-04T08:29:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T08:29:33","slug":"more-than-6600-palestinian-children-killed-since-the-beginning-of-gaza-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2023\/12\/more-than-6600-palestinian-children-killed-since-the-beginning-of-gaza-war\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 6,600 Palestinian children killed since the beginning of Gaza war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GAZA (SW) &#8211;\u00a0More than 6,600 Palestinian children have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza since October 7, says the government\u2019s media office.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thousands more are missing under the rubble amid relentless bombardment, it added.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, December 1, Catherine Russell, executive director of the United Nations Children\u2019s Fund, warned that Gaza is once again \u201cthe most dangerous place in the world to be a child\u201d, following the resumption of the war.<\/p>\n<p>Russell said that hundreds of children will died and injured each day if violence returns to the scale and intensity seen before the seven-day pause in fighting that ended on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt does not have to be this way. For seven days, there was a glimmer of hope for children amidst this horrific nightmare,\u201d Russell said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>About half of Gaza\u2019s population of 2.3 million is below the age of 18. Many Palestinian minors in Gaza have been traumatized by war, with some having experienced five Israeli assaults since 2008, according to the reports.<\/p>\n<p>The study conducted by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics before the war began on October 7 found that 13 percent of children and minors aged five to 17 suffer from anxiety.<\/p>\n<p>The bureau estimated that about 52,450 children and minors are expected to suffer from stress in 2023, while 13,000 could suffer from signs of depression.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers are expected to rise exponentially because of the October 7 war, the statistics bureau said.<\/p>\n<p>The Defense for Children International-Palestine, an NGO, said in early November that Israeli forces killed twice as many Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip in October as the total number of Palestinian children killed in the occupied West Bank and Gaza combined since 1967.<\/p>\n<p>More than 15,500 people have been killed in the besieged Palestinian territory in more than eight weeks of combat and heavy bombardment, the Ministry of Health says.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GAZA (SW) &#8211;\u00a0More than 6,600 Palestinian children have been killed\u00a0by Israeli forces in Gaza since October 7, says the government\u2019s media office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":16586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,1,984,979,194,200,982,5,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-0_swnen","category-news","category-humanitarian-crisis","category-world","category-democracy-human-rights","category-international","category-politics_","category-news_","category-headline"],"views":112,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16585"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16590,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16585\/revisions\/16590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}