Gaza: over 21,000 children killed in the first two years of war; more than 58,000 have lost a parent

According to data from the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, updated to April 6, 2026, since October 8, 2023, the day on which Israel launched its military offensive on Gaza, 21,283 children have been killed. Minors represent 30% of all deaths and 26% of the injuries recorded in the Strip.

The numbers illustrate a massacre that does not spare even the youngest: the victims include 450 newborns and 1,029 children under one year of age, while the number of dead children under the age of five amounts to 5,031.

The physical consequences for those who survived are devastating: at least 44,486 children have been injured, 10,500 have suffered permanent disabilities, and more than 1,000 have lost one or more limbs.

The conflict has also affected minors through hunger and cold: 157 children have died from malnutrition, 25 from hypothermia. On the family front, over 58,000 children have lost one or both parents, an entire generation raised in orphanhood and trauma.

Data, released by the Anadolu agency, which depicts in detail a humanitarian crisis of historic proportions that, as the geopolitics of power along the Tel Aviv-Washington axis reminds us, will remain unpunished.

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