Published 19 March 2024 at 09.34
Foreign. Since October, 13,000 children have died in connection with Israel's war on Gaza, according to the UN children's fund Unicef.
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– We have hardly seen such high death rates among children in any other conflict in the world, says Unicef director Catherine Russell in an interview with CBS News.
She states that it is “an astronomically horrific figure”.
At the same time, the figure is believed to be on the low side.
– Thousands more have been injured, or are missing. We don't know where they are, they may be stuck under the racial masses, says Catherine Russell.
13,000 children is equivalent to almost a crowded Globe.
The famine has escalated to a level where almost a third of children under the age of two according to Unicef suffer from malnutrition. Doctors testify that the newborns in Gaza are often underdeveloped or stillborn.