Speaking at a news conference in Geneva on Friday, UNICEF spokesperson Ricardo Pires said the death toll also included a girl killed in an Israeli airstrike on a house in Khan Yunis in southern Gaza on Thursday.
They include seven other children killed the previous day during a series of Israeli attacks across the enclave.
“This is during an agreed ceasefire. This pattern is alarming,” Pires told reporters regarding the death toll since October 11, the first full day of a ceasefire between the Israeli regime and Hamas.
“Again and again, these are not statistics. Everyone was a child with a family, a dream, a life that was suddenly cut short by continued violence.”
Palestinian children have borne the brunt of Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, with UNICEF last month estimating that 64,000 children have been killed or injured in Israeli attacks since the war began in October 2023.
Save the Children reported this week that by 2024, an average of 475 Palestinian children each month will “suffer lifelong disabilities” such as traumatic brain injuries and burns as a result of the war.
The humanitarian group said Gaza is also “home to the largest population of amputees in modern history.”
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