Israeli strikes on Gaza add to soaring child death toll
by Jason Burke in Jerusalem and Malak A Tantesh in Ga from World news | The Guardian on (#6W2GN)
Hospitals say high proportion of women and children among dead in latest strikes
At least 91 Palestinians have been killed and many more injured in a third day of Israeli strikes across Gaza, according to medical officials in the strip, who said a high proportion of the dead were women and children.
The timing of the strikes in the new Israeli offensive appears to have increased the proportion of women and children among the victims, with many sleeping when the missiles struck overnight or very early in the morning. Among those pulled alive from rubble on Thursday was a month-old baby girl, but her parents and brother were killed.
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