Following are the latest Infographics from VisualizingPalestine. The data these graphics are based on can be found at the end of this post. VisualizingPalestine allows us to use their Infographics under Creative Commons Licensing. Free to download, use, and share CC BY-NC-ND.
Palestinian children in Gaza are asking questions no child should have to ask.
Our latest series, created in collaboration with the #NoChildATarget campaign, features Palestinian children’s questions documented by staff at the Palestine Trauma Center-UK’s clinic in Gaza. The campaign, spearheaded by the Palestine-Global Mental Health Network in collaboration with international counterparts, also calls on governments to stop supplying Israel with weapons and advocates for immediate protection, humanitarian aid, and trauma-informed care for Palestinian children.
Sign the petition today:change.org/p/nochildatarget
Email campaign: doctorsagainstgenocide.org/no-child-a-target
DATA
Here is the source data that is displayed by the infographics.
https://bit.ly/vp-no-child-a-target
| Childhood Questions | ||
| Visuals by Visualizing Palestine | ||
| Fact in Visual | Source | Extract |
| Children’s questions in all slides | Documented by staff at the Palestine Trauma Centre | |
| 19,000+ children in Gaza have been orphaned by the Israeli genocide (as of Apr. 16 2024) | UN Women, Press Release (16 Apr 2024) | “Six months into the war, 10,000 Palestinian women in Gaza have been killed, among them an estimated 6,000 mothers, leaving 19,000 children orphaned.” |
| Israeli forces killed at least 17,492 children from Oct. 7 2023–Jan. 13, 2025 | Al Jazeera English: Israel-Gaza War Live Tracker | “Killed: at least 46,565 people, including 17,492 children” |
| Over 20,000 children are missing | Save the Children, Gaza’s Missing Children (24 Jun 2024) | “Up to 21,000 [1] children are estimated to be missing in the chaos of the war in Gaza, many trapped beneath rubble, detained, buried in unmarked graves, or lost from their families, said Save the Children.” |
| 4,000 children in Gaza have had a limb amputated in the last year (as of Oct. 3, 2024) | The National, “Will my leg grow back?” (3 Oct 2024) | “The World Health Organisation estimates the number of amputations in the Gaza Strip at between 3,105 and 4,050.” |
| 92% of housing in Gaza has been damaged or destroyed by Israeli forces | OCHA Impact Snapshot (8 Jan 2025) | “92% (436,000) of housing units are destroyed (160,000) or severely/partially damaged (276,000)” |
| 8 displaced newborns died of hypothermia in Gaza due to lack of adequate shelter (Dec. 2024–Jan. 9, 2025) | UN News, “Children are now freezing to death” (9 Jan 2025) | “Tragically in the last month alone, eight newborns have died of hypothermia and 74 children have already died amid the brutal conditions of winter in 2025.” |
| 96% of children in Gaza feel that death is imminent (survey, July 2024) | Guardian, Death feels imminent for 96% of children, study says (11 Dec 2024), Study by WarChild | “A new study of children living through the war in Gaza has found that 96% of them feel that their death is imminent and almost half want to die as a result of the trauma they have been through.” |
| 88% of schools in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed by Israeli forces | OCHA Impact Snapshot (8 Jan 2025) | “At least 88% of school buildings (496 out of 564) require either full reconstruction or major rehabilitation (as of 1 December 2024)” |
| And 658,000 children have no access to education (as of Jan. 8, 2025) | OCHA Impact Snapshot (8 Jan 2025) | “~658,000 students with no access to formal education.” |
| Israeli genocide made Gaza the most dangerous place in the world to be a child. | UNICEF Spokesperson James Elder, UNICEF Briefing (19 Dec 2023) | “The Gaza Strip is the most dangerous place in the world to be a child. And day after day, that brutal reality is reinforced.” |
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