10 children per day losing one or two legs in Gaza: UNRWA
AFP | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Ten children per day are losing one or both of their legs in the war in Gaza, the head of the UN agency supporting Palestinian refugees said yesterday.
"Basically we have every day 10 children who are losing one leg or two legs on average," UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini told reporters in Geneva. Citing figures from the UN children's agency UNICEF, he said that figure "does not even include the arms and the hands, and we have many more" of these.
"Ten per day, that means around 2,000 children after the more than 260 days of this brutal war," Lazzarini said. He said amputation often takes place "in quite horrible conditions", sometimes without anaesthesia.
Save the Children said on Monday that up to 21,000 children are estimated to be missing in the chaos of the war. The Gaza Health ministry says at least 37,658 people have been killed in Israel's retaliatory offensive following Hamas's October 7 attack on southern Israel.
That attack resulted in the deaths of 1,195 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli official figures.
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