Hundreds of children continue to face violence in Gaza amid Israeli bombing that has so far killed nearly 3,500 people and wounded more than 12,000. Gaza’s population is overwhelmingly young with about 65% of the population under the age of 24.
Palestinians work to rescue a boy trapped in the rubble following an Israeli strike on a house in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, October 19. REUTERS/Anas al-Shareef
Israel bombarded the Gaza Strip early Friday, hitting areas where Palestinians had been told to seek safety, wiping out whole families, terrorizing children amid the potential ground invasion of Gaza that could trigger regional turmoil.
A woman embraces the body of a Palestinian child killed in Israeli strikes, at a hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 17. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
Palestinians in Gaza reported heavy airstrikes in Khan Youni, a town in the territory’s south, and ambulances carrying men, women and children streamed into the local Nasser Hospital. The hospital, Gaza’s second largest, already was overflowing with patients and people seeking shelter.
The daughter of Palestinian woman Raghda Abu Marasa, who fled to the southern part of the enclave after Israel’s call for more than 1 million civilians in northern Gaza to move south, rides in a car with her family members as they return to their home in Gaza City, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 17. Abu Marasa said they decided to return to their home as they found no safe place to stay at in southern Gaza. REUTERS/Mohammed SalemA Palestinian man carries a wounded girl at the site of Israeli strikes, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip October 14. REUTERS/Yasser QudihA man carries a wounded Palestinian girl as a woman reacts at the site of Israeli strikes on a house, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip October 11. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu MustafaA Palestinian girl reacts in the aftermath of Israeli strikes, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 14. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu MustafaA man buries the body of a Palestinian child from Al-Bakri family, who health officials said was killed by an Israeli strike on their house, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip October 19. REUTERS/Ahmed ZakotA child looks through a car window as Palestinians, who fled their houses amid Israeli strikes, take shelter in a tent camp at a United Nations-run center, after Israel’s call for more than 1 million civilians in northern Gaza to move south, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 19. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu MustafaA man carries a wounded child at the site of an Israeli strike in Khan Younis, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in the southern Gaza Strip October 19. REUTERS/Yasser QudihPalestinian girl Fulla Al-Laham, 4, who was wounded in an Israeli strike that killed 14 family members, including her parents and all her siblings, lies on a bed as her grandmother sits next to her, at a hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 14. REUTERS/Mohammed SalemPalestinians with dual citizenship gather outside Rafah border crossing with Egypt in the hope of getting permission to leave Gaza, amid the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip October 16. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu MustafaPalestinians carry a wounded girl rescued from the rubble of a house after it was hit by Israeli strikes, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip October 14. REUTERS/Yasser QudihA medical worker carries a child casualty at the site of an Israeli strike in Khan Younis, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in the southern Gaza Strip October 19. REUTERS/Yasser QudihThe father of Alma Al Majayda, 3, killed in Israeli strikes, embraces her body during her funeral, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 19. REUTERS/Mohammed SalemA boy reacts next to the body of a child killed in Israeli strikes on a house in Gaza City, October 18. REUTERS/Mohammed Al-MasriA Palestinian child wounded in Israeli strikes receives treatment at a hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 14. REUTERS/Arafat BarbakhPalestinian children injured in Israeli strikes are brought to a hospital, in Gaza City, October 11. REUTERS/Mohammed SalemA Palestinian child, wounded in Israeli strikes lies on a bed at a hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza strip, October 16. REUTERS/Ahmed ZakotA medic runs as he carries an injured Palestinian child to ambulance in this screengrab taken from a video, in Gaza, October 9. REUTERS/Stringer
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