{"id":29279,"date":"2025-03-27T18:44:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T18:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=29279"},"modified":"2025-03-27T18:44:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T18:44:05","slug":"numbers-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=29279","title":{"rendered":"numbers&#8230;kids&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"650\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/gaza-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25046\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/gaza-4.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/gaza-4-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/gaza-4-768x499.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Excerpted from The Guardian March 27 article<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The UN reports that at least&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2024\/12\/1158206\">14,500 children<\/a>&nbsp;have been killed in Gaza\u2013 also probably a dramatic undercount. The real mortality figure is probably unknowable, not least because so&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/gaza-palestinians-families-israel-war-deaths-a9f8bcfe402c17f1f78903eae67b7a7d\">many families<\/a>&nbsp;have been killed at once, leaving no one to account for some babies or toddlers ever having existed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Beyond the mass death, international agencies suggest that at least&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news\/item\/19-01-2025-the-ceasefire-in-gaza-brings-hope--but-immense-challenges-lie-ahead-to-restore-the-health-system\">110,000 people in Gaza<\/a>&nbsp;have been injured, including at least&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/un-gaza-war-children-killed-malnutrition-israel-bef00a350a7fbe5a33dfb2c9883803ce\">25,000 children<\/a>. And Unicef&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unicefusa.org\/stories\/unicef-delivers-wheelchairs-gazas-children\">estimates<\/a>&nbsp;that between 3,000 and 4,000 children in Gaza have had one or more limbs amputated.<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-122d7585b1dfae652f7f5cca33018746\" style=\"color:#d50f04\"><strong>That small tract of earth is now home to more child amputees per inhabitant than anywhere else in the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>click link for article<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/ng-interactive\/2025\/mar\/27\/gaza-palestine-children-injuries?CMP=share_btn_url\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/ng-interactive\/2025\/mar\/27\/gaza-palestine-children-injuries?CMP=share_btn_url<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Gaza-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Gaza-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Gaza-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Gaza-1-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/gaza-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/gaza-3.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/gaza-3-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/gaza-3-768x505.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"555\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/gaza-5-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6952\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/gaza-5-copy.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/gaza-5-copy-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/gaza-5-copy-768x426.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpted from The Guardian March 27 article: The UN reports that at least&nbsp;14,500 children&nbsp;have been killed in Gaza\u2013 also probably a dramatic undercount. The real mortality figure is probably unknowable, not least because so&nbsp;many families&nbsp;have been killed at once, leaving no one to account for some babies or toddlers ever having existed. Beyond the mass &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=29279\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;numbers&#8230;kids&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29279"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29287,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29279\/revisions\/29287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}