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GAZA/JERUSALEM, Oct 24 (Reuters) - More than 700 Palestinians were killed in overnight Israeli air strikes, Gaza's health ministry said on Tuesday, the highest 24-hour death toll since Israel began a bombing campaign to crush Hamas militants who stunned the country with a deadly Oct. 7 attack.

Israel said it had killed dozens of Hamas fighters in the overnight strikes on the besieged enclave but said its war to destroy the Islamist group would take time.

As aid agencies warned that a humanitarian catastrophe was unfolding in Gaza, French President Emmanuel Macron flew to Israel to offer it support.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Which means probably about 350 of them were children.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Why the down vote? Average age in gaza is 19 (yes mean is not median but still). This means that you have a good chance that a large proportion of those killed were kids (and almost all weren't of voting age last time gaza had an election).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Jsyk, this site puts median and mean age lower at 18 y/o which just makes Israel's actions more abhorrent.

https://www.countryreports.org/country/GazaStrip/population.htm