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Every 10 minutes a child is injured or killed by Israeli attacks in Gaza, Palestine. This was reported by the United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, citing information from the Ministry of Health in Gaza. the news Al Jazeera.
On Saturday (April 20), the Ministry of Health reported that 37 more people were killed in Gaza in 24 hours due to Israeli attacks. With this, 34 thousand 49 Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli attack on Gaza since October 7. More than 14,000 children were among the dead Palestinians.
Assessing the latest situation in Gaza, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has brought forward the dire statistics of children killed in Israeli attacks.
Highlighting the statistics from last April 1 to 19, OCHA also said that during this time, the humanitarian aid programs conducted in parts of North Gaza and South Gaza did not coordinate the necessary coordination, or the Israeli authorities prevented it. Israel has stepped up its attacks on Gaza's Rafah area amid international concern. 10 people were killed in the attack there on Friday night. Most of the dead were children and women.
On Saturday (April 20), hospital authorities said that Israeli forces attacked a residential building in this southern city on Friday night. 10 people including 6 children were killed.
Palestinians believe Israel has stepped up its assault on Rafah as part of an upcoming ground campaign. About 1.5 million people have fled from the northern and central regions and are staying there in heaps. The international community, including the United Nations, has been urging Israel not to conduct ground operations in the densely populated area.
Meanwhile, Israeli forces have stepped up operations in the besieged Gaza as well as the occupied West Bank.
On Saturday (April 20), the Israeli military said in a post on social media that 10 Palestinian fighters were killed and 8 arrested in a raid on the Noor Shams refugee camp in the West Bank.
In addition, Ismail Haniya, head of the Palestinian resistance organization Hamas, met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday (April 20). Before the meeting of these two leaders, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shokri held a meeting in Istanbul on the situation in Gaza.
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