If 40,000 folks held palms, staying aside, to type a human chain, they might encircle your complete island of Manhattan.
Israeli assaults have killed greater than 40,000 Palestinians within the Gaza Strip within the 320 days since October 7.
This contains practically 17,000 youngsters, or 2.6 % of all youngsters in Gaza who’ve died to this point.
Not less than 53 youngsters have been killed daily since October 7, and 72 women and men are killed in Israeli assaults daily.
Not less than 10,000 individuals are lacking beneath the rubble, most of them presumed useless.
Viewing 40,000 folks
Madison Sq. Backyard in New York Metropolis is an iconic indoor stadium. It has a complete capability of 19,500 folks.
The variety of folks killed in Gaza would fill Madison Sq. Backyard twice over.
If there have been 40,000 folks in Paris crammed collectively, the primary individual can be at Notre Dame and the final at Versailles. The queue can be 24 kilometres lengthy.
If 40,000 folks held palms, staying aside, to type a human chain, they might encircle your complete island of Manhattan.
It might take a mean individual strolling at 5 km per hour 12 hours to journey from the start of that chain to the top.
To cowl these 60 kilometers, a sedan touring at 50 kilometers per hour would wish 72 minutes to cross your complete line, i.e. greater than an hour of driving time.
Of the 40,000 folks killed, 18.4 % are girls and 33 % are youngsters.
Of the 2 million inhabitants of Gaza earlier than 7 October, virtually half have been youngsters.
Of the greater than 40,000 individuals who died, virtually 17,000 have been youngsters, who may fill 550 lecture rooms.
Greater than 500 colleges used as shelters have been attacked by Israel, most of them broken and destroyed.
Within the 10 months of the conflict, Palestinian youngsters in Gaza have misplaced a whole faculty yr.
Tens of 1000’s of Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s conflict on Gaza. Al Jazeera @ajlabs It places the magnitude of the murders into perspective ⤵️ photograph.twitter.com/DlHP9d90lh
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) August 26, 2024
