Gaza Home to 40% of Minors Killed in Conflict Last Year, UN Says

Report from secretary-general to be released this month
Israel-Hamas war sends violence to ‘extreme levels’: Guterres

Palestinians at the site of an Israeli strike on an area designated for displaced people in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on Monday, May 27, 2024.Photographer: Ahmad Salem/Bloomberg

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By Augusta Saraiva

June 12, 2024 at 7:45 PM UTC

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Children in Gaza accounted for nearly 40% of minors killed in conflicts globally last year, according to an upcoming United Nations report on cases it says it has verified, casting blame on both Israel and Hamas for the surge in deaths.

The killing of more than 2,000 Palestinian and 40 Israeli children helped push violence against children to “extreme levels” in 2023, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in the report, which was reviewed by Bloomberg News and is scheduled to be released publicly later this month.