In Gaza, the aftermath of the recent conflict has prompted mourning as families return to homes reduced to rubble. A staggering death toll of children is anticipated, with recent UN data indicating that 44% of verified deaths during a five-month period were children, many aged five to nine, often killed in their homes. While discussions about the future and ceasefires are necessary, it's essential to recognize and mourn the tragic losses endured, as thousands of innocent lives, particularly children, suffered in unimaginably harrowing circumstances during the war.
For the past week, Palestinians in Gaza have been returning to their homes, now mostly reduced to rubble and to their dead who still lie beneath.
UN analysis of verified deaths during a five-month period confirmed that of those who died, 44% were children. Most often, those children were five- to nine-year-olds; 80% of them killed in their own homes.
Too often, individual losses during this war have been subsumed by a broader tussle over whether the numbers of the dead were correct, justified and even necessary.
But, in that, there is a risk of diminishing or sanitising what happened. And what happened is that thousands of innocent people died, and among them were thousands of children.
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