Nearly 18,000 children have been killed by Israel in Gaza since the start of the US-sponsored genocide of Palestinians in October 2023
MAR 25, 2025
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At least 270 Palestinian children have been killed in Gaza since the Israeli military restarted its ethnic cleansing campaign in the besieged enclave one week ago, according to Save the Children.
“Children are being killed in their sleep in tents; they are being starved and attacked. The only way to ensure children and families are protected is through a definitive ceasefire,” the US-based NGO said in a report on 25 March.
The past week marked “the deadliest days for children since the war began,” Save the Children says, revealing that since the start of the war on 7 October 2023, “over 17,800 children have been killed, with thousands more estimated to be missing, presumed dead under the rubble.”
On Monday, Gaza’s Health Ministry listed the names of over 50,000 Palestinians confirmed killed by Israel in Gaza since 7 October 2023. The 1,516-page document includes 474 pages listing the names of more than 15,600 children.
According to a UN report from November last year, nearly 70 percent of the confirmed number of murdered Palestinians at the time were women and children.
“They should be executed even if they are 16 years old,” Israel’s ambassador to Austria, David Roet, said during a closed-door meeting with the local Jewish community in Innsbruck last week. “If you believe that there are no uninvolved [people] in Gaza … you’re believing that Israel is targeting babies intentionally, which is not correct.”
Israel renewed its bombing campaign of Gaza on 18 March, unilaterally putting an end to a US-brokered ceasefire deal authorities in Tel Aviv had repeatedly violated.
Between Monday and Tuesday, the Israeli onslaught killed at least 62 Palestinians, including seven children.
Ceasefire talks in the Egyptian capital fell apart after an Israeli delegation rejected a new Egyptian proposal and left Cairo on Monday, according to sources cited by Al-Araby al-Jadeed.
“Israel rejected all proposals despite Hamas’s positive response to a humanitarian ceasefire proposal,” the sources said, adding that Tel Aviv is “coordinating with regional parties to exert maximum pressure on Hamas ahead of any new negotiations.”
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