Pressmediaofindia
Related Articles
28-08-2024
GAZA CITY: Israeli attacks have killed more than 40,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in the 320 days since October 7.
This includes almost 17,000 children. That’s 2.6 percent of all children in Gaza who are now dead.
At least 53 children have been killed every day since October 7, and 72 men and women are killed in Israeli strikes, every single day.
At least 10,000 are missing under the rubble, most of them presumed dead.
Visualizing 40,000 people
Madison Square Garden in New York City is a landmark indoor arena. Its total capacity is 19,500 people.
The number of people killed in Gaza would fill up Madison Square Garden twice.
If 40,000 people were standing tightly next to each other in Paris, the first person would be at Notre-Dame and the last would be in Versailles. The line would be 24 kilometres long.
If 40,000 people joined hands, standing apart, to form a human chain, they could surround the entire island of Manhattan.
It would take an average person walking at 5km per hour 12 hours to walk from the beginning of that chain to the end.
Driving those 60 kilometres would take a sedan car driving at 50 kilometres per hour, 72 mins to pass the entire line. That’s more than an hour of drive time.
Of the 40,000 people killed, 18.4 percent are women, and 33 percent are children.
In Gaza’s pre-October 7 population of two million, almost half were children.
Of the more-than 40,000 people killed, nearly 17,000 are children. They could fill up 550 classrooms.
More than 500 schools being used as shelters have been targeted by Israel, most damaged and destroyed.
In the 10 months of war, an entire school year has been missed by Palestinian children in Gaza.
“The scene of the massacre is etched into my brain, like I lived through a horror film.” Palestinians have been describing the Israeli attack on the al-Tabin school shelter in Gaza where more than 100 displaced women, children and elderly people were killed.
Here are the latest casualty figures as of 2:45pm in Gaza (11:45 GMT) on August 26;
Gaza
Killed: at least 40,435 people, including nearly 16,500 children, injured: more than 93,534 people, missing: more than 10,000
The latest figures from the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the occupied West Bank are as follows;
In Israel, officials revised the death toll from the October 7 attacks down from 1,405 to 1,139. Killed: 1,139 people, injured: at least 8,730
According to the latest data from the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the World Health Organization and the Palestinian government as of August 25, Israeli attacks have damaged:
More than half of Gaza’s homes destroyed or damaged, 80 percent of commercial facilities, 85 percent of school buildings, 16 out of 36 hospitals are partially functioning, 65 percent of road networks, 65 percent of cropland damaged.
However, leaflets ordering evacuations have been inconsistent with online warnings, which has confused residents. (Al Jazeera)
