Deaths of Children in Gaza.
On the one year anniversary of the HAMAS raid into Israel, that started the Gaza-Israel war, it is said that 40% of those killed in Gaza are children.
About 50% of the Gaza population are children, according to statements such as: Half of the population in Gaza is 18 or under, (18 being the median age), compared with a world average of 28. The median age of the Israeli population is 29.2 years.
One of the reasons for such a high rate of child birth would be a sense of duty to expand the population, highlighted by statements such as this: “There have been statements from Hamas urging women to have more children to create a larger army.”
33 children were killed in the 7 October 2023 attack on Israel that started this war.
38 Israeli children were among the 251 people who were abducted from Israel, and held hostage in Gaza, by the Palestinian invaders.
This attack on Israel has been reported as the largest attack on Jews since the Holocaust.
As at 1 September 2024, 101 hostages, from the raid into Israel, remained in captivity in the Gaza Strip.
97 of those hostages had been abducted on 7 October 2023, and the other four were captured before that date.
The start of the 2023-24 Palestinian-Israeli war.
At about 6:30 am on the 7th October 2023, around 6,000 Palestinians including 3,800 from the Hamas “elite Nukhba forces” launched an attack into Israel from 119 sites on its border with the Gaza Strip. The operation included a sustained barrage of at least 4,300 of rockets.
The ground incursion included massacres of Israeli civilians.
797 civilians, including 36 children, were killed in this attack. 364 of these civilians were killed, and many more wounded, while attending the Nova music festival. The Palestinians executed some of the wounded individuals at point-blank range as they crouched on the ground.
101 civilians were killed in the Be’eri massacre, including women and children, and 31 Israeli security personnel were also killed.
46 civilians were killed in the Kfar Aza massacre, the youngest being 14 years old.
Hamas initially denied the occurrence of the massacre and the killing of civilians. But videos, and other evidence, showed that the denial was a lie.
Hamas then called its invasion: “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood”.
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