An international charity says a child is being killed every 13 minutes in Gaza – and is adding to international calls for an immediate ceasefire.<\/p>\n
Reports from Gaza say 2300 children have been killed during Israel’s counter attacks. Almost 5400 more children have been injured and 800 are believed to be missing under rubble.<\/p>\n
These latest figures, reported by Save the Children, come from the Hamas-run Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza and media reports, and it has been impossible to independently verify them.<\/p>\n
Save the Children director for the Palestinian territory Jason Lee told\u00a0Checkpoint\u00a0<\/em>the children were facing a “human catastrophe”.<\/p>\n An international charity says a child is being killed every 13 minutes in Gaza – and is adding to international calls for an immediate ceasefire.<\/p>\n Reports from Gaza say 2300 children have been killed during Israel’s counter attacks. Almost 5400 more children have been injured and 800 are believed to be missing under rubble.<\/p>\n These latest figures, reported by Save the Children, come from the Hamas-run Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza and media reports, and it has been impossible to independently verify them.<\/p>\n Save the Children director for the Palestinian territory Jason Lee told\u00a0Checkpoint\u00a0<\/em>the children were facing a “human catastrophe”.<\/p>\n rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An international charity says a child is being killed every 13 minutes in Gaza – and is adding to international calls for an immediate ceasefire. Reports from Gaza say 2300 children have been killed during Israel’s counter attacks. Almost 5400 more children have been injured and 800 are believed to be missing under rubble. These […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8257,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8255\/revisions\/8257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}