The Civil Defense in Gaza announced the rise of the martyrs of Al -Tafah neighborhood in Gaza to 24 martyrs and about 100 wounded, after an Israeli bombing of a school sheltering displaced.
In another context, the Palestinian Central Agency for Statistics announced today, Thursday, that children constitute 43% of the population of Palestine, and that there are 39 thousand orphans in the Gaza Strip with the return of polio to the Strip, indicating this situation is the largest crisis in modern history.
The statistics said – in a statement carried by the Palestinian News Agency “Wafa”, on the eve of the Palestinian Children’s Day – that famine and malnutrition threaten the lives of children in the Gaza Strip, as there are 60,000 expected cases of acute malnutrition, adding that the occupation forces have arrested since October 7,055 children in a systematic violation of childhood rights and flagrant violation of international law.
He added that the demographic estimates showed that the population of the State of Palestine amounted to about 5.5 million people at the end of the year 2024, and they were distributed by 3.4 million in the West Bank and 2.1 million in the Gaza Strip and that the Palestinian society is distinguished as a young community, as children under the age of 18 constituted 43% of the total population; That is, approximately 2.38 million children, at 1.39 million in the West Bank and 0.98 million in the Gaza Strip. As for the age group under 15 years, they were 37% of the total population, equivalent to about 2.03 million children, of whom 1.18 million in the West Bank and 0.9 million in the Gaza Strip. The age group under 18, about 47% of the population of Gaza, compared to 41% in the West Bank, while the percentage of children under 15.3% in the Gaza Strip reached 34.8% in the West Bank.
He pointed out that, during the 534 days of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip (October 7, 2023 – March 23, 2025), he faced an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe, as they formed with women more than 60% of the total victims, and the aggression resulted in the death of 50,021 Palestinians, including 17,954 children, including 274 infants born and martyred under the bombing, and 876 children without a year One, 17 children died as a result of the cold in the tents of the displaced, and 52 children died due to starvation and systematic malnutrition. 113,274 wounded, 69% of them were children and women, while more than 11,200 citizens are still missing, 70% of them are children and women.
