The UN ESCWA has, on its front page, a chart showing casualties in Gaza. It claims that there have been 15,882 children killed as of June 29.
Its source foe that figure is the Shireen Abu Akleh Observatory.
The Shireen Abu Akleh Observatory is an NGO that has no accountability. It was founded only last year, it does not list the names of its founders, it does not list a methodology. It could be someone in his garage. We have no way of knowing.
But it is good enough for the UN.
Or is it? When I actually look for this statistic on the site, I cannot find it. Instead, it tries to list the names of known casualties in Gaza and the West Bank, and so far it has only counted 4,370 children in both Gaza and the West Bank since October 7 (out of 11,000 named "martyrs.".
The best part of the Shireen site is the photographs. It tries to find pictures of the dead. Here are nine of the "child martyrs" of the West Bank since October:
