Israel has killed one child every hour

[Wedonttalkaboutboris]

‘On average since October 2023, Israel has killed one child every hour’- Save The Children.

https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/news/media-centre/press-releases/2025/gaza-20000-children-killed-23-months-war-more-one-child

But the headline said “more than”. It is indeed “more than”. The maths is perfectly mathsing. And I am a sodding mathematician. I spend my life moaning about people getting the maths wrong. This is tragically right.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/09/the-gaza-family-torn-apart-by-idf-snipers-from-chicago-and-munich

“Daniel Raab shows no hesitation as he watches footage of 19-year-old Salem Doghmosh crumpling to the ground beside his brother in a street in northern Gaza.
"That was my first elimination," he says. The video, shot by a drone, lasts just a few seconds. The Palestinian teenager appears to be unarmed when he is shot in the head.
Raab, a former varsity basketball player from a Chicago suburb who became an Israeli sniper, concedes he knew that. He says he shot Salem simply because he tried to retrieve the body of his beloved older brother Mohammed.
"It's hard for me to understand why he [did that] and it also doesn't really interest me," Raab says in a video interview posted on X. "I mean, what was so important about that corpse?"

Where you you even start.

That's just so sad @Wedonttalkaboutboris . Last year when surveyed a huge proportion of children thought they would die soon.

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2025-09/gaza-childen-displacement-war-fr-faltas-custody-holy-land-hope.html. The uncertainty in their short lives is just horrible.

Wow. Are people actually arguing over how many children have been killed and by who? And which ones matter more?! Even if it was one child that died it's too many. None of this should be happening at all.

20,000 dead children isn’t a gimmick.

What's the lie?

The number of murders on 7/10 is frequently compared to the last two years. Why is it different now?

It is incredibly sad that 38 children died.

But by the weekend there will be another 38 children killed by Israeli forces. And by this time next week another 38. And then another. And then another.

And each of those sets of 38 children matter equally.

No, but the broadcasting is.

How so?

Is it only children who have been caught in the crossfire?

Couldn't agree more. It's just the lack of responsibility/fingers in the ears about why this particular conflict started and who can end it that winds me up. That, alongside the fact that other Muslim;Muslim wars that have been going on for years NEVER seems to get most people in the feels quite like a war where Jews can possibly be blamed.

And what could be done to stop it?

As I mentioned once or twice before it says “more than”. 20k is more than 16.7k.

My mathematical skills have dulled greatly due to middle age but I am pretty sure of that.

Did you read the article or just get your calculator out for a gotcha

At least one Palestinian child has been killed every hour on average by Israeli forces in Gaza over nearly 23 months of war, with the number of children killed now surpassing 20,000, Save the Children said.

At least;not less than; at the minimum

Fuck knows. Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t note the fucking tragedy if it though.

That doesn’t stop it being a sensationalist headline. It’s a 17% difference which is a bloody huge amount.

17% difference in what?

Do you not understand that the number of dead children is still the same , the time analogy was only used to illustrate it?

Quite frightening you think you have made a point here.

70% of civilians killed have been women and children.

Calling it a ‘crossfire’ is an interesting choice of language, when unarmed civilians have been deliberately targeted: children shot by drones, tents bombed, and babies starved to death because of the blockade on baby formula.

Where is the lie? The headline said (and I copied and pasted it so no need to deal with my terrible typing):-

GAZA: 20,000 CHILDREN KILLED IN 23 MONTHS OF WAR - MORE THAN ONE CHILD KILLED EVERY HOUR

So it says “more than one child killed every hour”.

The earlier poster who has done the sums reckons it is actually 1.17 children killed every hour. Which is more than one child killed every hour.

The headline could have said “child killed every 51 minutes” which would be more accurate and actually sounds so much worse to me - something about it being in minutes” but it isn’t wrong to say “more than one” when it is indeed more than one.

I do understand. 16.7 is 17% less than 20k (at their one child an hour).

I find it quite baffling that a statement pointing out that sensationalist headlines do the Palestinians no favours in the eyes of the people who think it’s all being sensationalised by others 😂

My entire point was literally that they should be careful not to sensationalise things because it pulls people away from the facts. Heaven forbid someone show empathy AND point out the way to get support is to be more careful about how you word things.

Bloody hell. Not hard to see why people don’t want to engage with this debate is there? If you even halfway point out there’s better ways to make a point you’re ripped to shreds.

It does not say one child an hour it says "at least" one child an hour and "on average"

You thought it was a gotcha . It wasn't . Your numbers are irrelevant in the context of this article.

And laughing emojis when speaking about an unthinkable death toll of children isn't cute or funny.

I think you have it backwards.

There are over 20k children dead. If it was one child per hour it would only be 16,790 dead. There are more dead children than is first implied by the headline (unless you read it and note the “more than” that I may have mentioned once or twice).

It has not been sensationalised. If anything it has been unsensationalised.

Sensationalising the deaths, no matter what method used, is vulgar.