Image: Palestinians mourn an infant who was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Deir al-Balah on January 9, 2025. (Photo by Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Brett Wilkins of Common Dreams reports: “Over 21,500 children—1,022 of them babies—are among the more than 73,000 Palestinians killed by Israel since it launched the US-backed genocidal war on Gaza 1,000 days ago, including hundreds of minors slain since a one-way ceasefire took effect nine months ago, Gaza’s Government Media Office said Thursday.

In updated figures, the GMO said that at least 73,066 Palestinians have been killed since Israel began its war and siege on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023. A separate analysis published in mid-April by UN Women found that at least 38,000 women and girls were killed between October 2023 and December 2025…”

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