More than 40 000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza Why the hell is this number so low ?
That is actually an enormous figure. Israel has killed more than 40,000 Palestinians in Gaza alone in just 320 days, starting on October 7th. This encompasses around 17,000 children. A total of 2.6 percent of the children in Gaza have tragically lost their lives.
Since October 7, Israel has killed at least 53 children, as well as 72 men and women, every single day.
At least 10,000 Palestinians have gone missing and are believed to be dead under the rubble.
The iconic Madison Square Garden is located in New York City. It can accommodate up to 19,500 people in total. The casualties in Gaza are enough to fill two full Madison Square Garden arenas.
Imagine a crowd of forty thousand individuals standing side by side in Paris. The first person would be at Notre-Dame and the last would be in Versailles. The line would be 24 kilometres long.
You could encircle the whole island of Manhattan with a human chain made of forty thousand people standing apart from each other.
From the starting point to the end of the chain, an average walker would need twelve hours at a pace of five kilometers per hour.
A sedan car traveling at a speed of 50 kilometers per hour would take approximately 72 minutes to cover a distance of 60 kilometers. That exceeds a duration of one hour of driving.
Out of the 40,000 people killed, 18.4 percent are women and 41.1 percent are children.
Out of Gaza's population of two million prior to October 7, about half consisted of children.
Out of the 40,000 people killed, around 17,000 are children. They have the capacity to fit in 550 classrooms.
Israel has specifically attacked more than 500 schools that serve as shelters, causing significant damage and destruction.
During the 11-month war, Palestinian children in Gaza have missed a whole academic year.