Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Revealed: the Palestinian children killed by Israeli forces

By Mark Oliver, Andrew Marszal, and Sam Dodge-22 Jul 2014

More children than Palestinian fighters are being killed in Israel’s offensive on Gaza, according to the UN. Shown here are the name, age, and sex of 132 of those children, recorded by the Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights. Israel claims Hamas bears responsibility for civilian deaths because it stores weapons in civilian areas and some of its rockets are falling on Gaza territory

Since the start of Israel’s Operation Protective Edge, and the ground assault on the Gaza Strip since last Thursday, at least 580 Palestinians have been killed.

Of these more than a quarter have been children.

The Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights, a Gaza-based human rights organisation which works with the UN, has verified the deaths of 132 children between July 7 and July 21 via its field workers.

The above graphic gives the name, age, sex and location – as well as the date on which they were killed – of all of these.

• Full report: Israel’s offensive in Gaza has ‘killed more children than fighters’, say human rights groups