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Israeli attacks disabled 21,000 Palestinian children in Gaza war, UN says

Four-year-old Ahmad Sahlol lost part of his arm when an Israeli tank shelled his family home two years ago in Khan Younis in Gaza [File: Abid Katib/Getty Images]

At least 21,000 children have been disabled in Gaza since Israel’s genocidal war on the besieged enclave broke out nearly two years ago, a United Nations committee has said.

The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) reported on Wednesday that about 40,500 children have suffered “new war-related injuries” during the war, leaving more than half of them disabled.

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