Israel Has Killed 6 Hamas Leaders in Gaza. It’s Killed More Than 800 Children.

Entire Palestinian families massacred. Children slaughtered. Threats of a “second Nakba.” Israel’s war on Gaza isn’t a war on Hamas — it’s a war on Palestinian civilians.

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A wounded Palestinian boy, 12-year-old Mohammed Sofi, surveys buildings destroyed during Israeli air strikes near his home in the Rafah refugee camp in south Gaza, October 16. (Mohammed Abed / AFP via Getty Images)


On Friday, Israel ordered over one million Palestinians in northern Gaza to immediately evacuate their homes. Heeding the warning, seventy Palestinians boarded a fleeing convoy headed for southern Gaza. Minutes later, an Israeli air strike hit the civilian caravan with chilling precision, killing everyone on board.

The scene has sent shocks of horror down the spines of residents of the tiny, heavily blockaded sliver of land known as the world’s largest refugee camp, who find themselves trapped in a death pit with no hope of escape. Israel has bombarded locations in the south of Gaza, where it ordered civilians to relocate, including in Deir al-Balah, Khan Yunis, and Rafah.

On Sunday, Gaza’s two million residents suffered the deadliest day of the war, with over three hundred Palestinians killed, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. So far, Israeli air strikes in Gaza have killed a staggering 2,800 Palestinians, including at least 800 children, and wounded nearly 11,000 others. The vast majority have been civilians. Israel admits it’s killed just six senior Hamas leaders, yet the bodies of dead children are strewn in the streets and under the rubble.

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