{"id":6107,"date":"2026-07-29T16:42:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldwatchalert.com\/?p=6107"},"modified":"2026-07-29T16:42:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:42:30","slug":"more-than-60000-children-orphaned-in-gaza-since-october-2023-palestinian-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldwatchalert.com\/?p=6107","title":{"rendered":"More than 60,000 children orphaned in Gaza since October 2023: Palestinian ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>More than 60,000 children in the Gaza Strip have lost at least one parent since Israel\u2019s military campaign began in October 2023, the enclave\u2019s health ministry said in a report on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the official figures, at least 60,737 children were orphaned or left with a single parent, including 52,095 who lost their fathers, 5,929 their mothers, and 2,713 who lost both parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ministry also said 2,276 families \u2014 comprising 8,858 individuals \u2014 had been \u201ccompletely wiped out\u201d from the civil registry amid the ongoing conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Overall, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/2615747\/gaza-death-toll-rises-to-over-73000-as-israeli-attacks-kill-8-more-palestinians\">death toll in Gaza has surpassed 73,000<\/a>&nbsp;since October 2023, the report added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite a ceasefire reached in October, Israeli forces have continued to carry out strikes across the territory, with more than 1,100 people reported killed since the truce came into effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The figures highlight the severe humanitarian toll of the conflict, with thousands of children left without parental care and entire families erased during months of sustained violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Israeli authorities and security forces deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza, and war crimes in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/2613798\/israeli-settlers-torch-two-west-bank-mosques\">occupied West Bank<\/a>, an independent United Nations inquiry reported on June 23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel examined&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/2607066\/war-on-children-1\">violations against Palestinian children<\/a>&nbsp;since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas on October 7, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Around 30% of those&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/2602222\/gaza-death-toll-rises-to-72328-despite-ceasefire\">killed in the Gaza war<\/a>&nbsp;were children, the report found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A previous report by the commission in September found that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza and that top Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, incited these acts \u2014 accusations that Israel called scandalous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 60,000 children in the Gaza Strip have lost at least one parent since Israel\u2019s military campaign began in October 2023, the enclave\u2019s health ministry said in a report&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[294,298],"class_list":["post-6107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-gaza","tag-palestine"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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