{"id":6755,"date":"2023-12-05T13:42:39","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T13:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=6755"},"modified":"2023-12-05T13:42:39","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T13:42:39","slug":"who-1-child-killed-every-10-minutes-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/05\/who-1-child-killed-every-10-minutes-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO: 1 Child Killed Every 10 Minutes in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On average one child is killed every 10 minutes in Gaza, a World Health Organization (WHO) representative said on Tuesday, calling the situation &#8220;humanity&#8217;s darkest hour.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;We are talking almost about 16,000 people killed, its more than 60% (are) women and children, and more than 42,000 people injured,&#8221; said Richard Peeperkorn, WHO representative in occupied Palestinian territories.<br \/>\nPeeperkorn added: &#8220;On average a child is killed every 10 minutes in Gaza. I think in that sense we are close by the humanity&#8217;s darkest hour.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;We need a sustained cease-fire,&#8221; he urged.<br \/>\nGaza, he said, went from 3,500 hospital beds to &#8220;probably way less&#8221; than 1,500 now, and stressed that the strip cannot afford any other loss of hospital beds as health needs are soaring.<br \/>\nIsrael resumed its military offensive on the Gaza Strip on Friday after the end of a week-long humanitarian pause with the Palestinian group Hamas.<br \/>\nNearly 15,900 Palestinians have been killed and more than 42,000 others injured in relentless air and ground attacks on the enclave since Oct. 7 following a cross-border attack by Hamas. The Israeli death toll in the Hamas attack stood at 1,200, according to official figures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed On average one child is killed every 10 minutes in Gaza, a World Health Organization (WHO) representative said on Tuesday, calling the situation &#8220;humanity&#8217;s darkest hour.&#8221; &#8220;We are talking almost about 16,000 people killed, its more than 60% (are) women and children, and more than 42,000 people injured,&#8221; said Richard &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6757,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6755\/revisions\/6757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}