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Israel has killed ‘a classroom full of children’ every single day

"Nothing justifies the killing of children wherever they are," Sam Rose, UNRWA Director of Affairs in Gaza, tells BBC Radio 4.

July 17, 2025

Israel has killed Palestinian children while they were asleep, sheltering in schools, fleeing displacement and queuing for food and water.

The death toll of Israel's onslaught on Palestine’s Gaza has surpassed 18,000, averaging the loss of a classroom full of children every single day since October 7.

Source: Sam Rose, UNRWA Director of Affairs in Gaza, to BBC Radio 4

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