"The UN has counted 346 Palestinian children killed since the Israeli assault began, while Hamas, the radical Islamic movement that Israel has been trying to dislodge, says there are 410 children among the 1,201 Palestinian dead.
An even larger number of children have been wounded - 1,630, according to Hamas - and a disturbing number of them have suffered serious injuries to the head.
Bullets in the brain, shrapnel in the spine: the terrible injuries suffered by children of Gaza
Doctors at a hospital near Gaza are almost overwhelmed by the number of
Palestinian children needing treatment for bullet wounds to their heads.
An injured Palestinian boy is one of those who has made the 40 mile round trip from Gaza to a hospital in Egypt
On just one day last week staff at the El-Arish hospital in Sinai were called
to perform sophisticated CAT brain scans on a nine-year-old, two
10-year-olds and a 14-year-old - each of whom had a bullet still lodged in
their brain, after coming under fire during the Israeli ground assault on
Gaza.
"Anas was deeply comatose when she came in, and she remains deeply
comatose," said Dr Yahia. "The bullet has damaged a big part of
her brain. It came in, hit the skull wall and then changed direction
downwards. I've seen a lot of gun injuries and the damage here is so
extensive I think it may be fatal."
Dr Yahia, a professor of neurosurgery who has worked in both the United States
and Britain, believes that the bullet was shot from close range. "If it
changes course inside the brain it has high velocity and its penetrative
force is also high," he said.
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"I can't precisely decide whether these children are being shot at as a
target, but in some cases the bullet comes from the front of the head and
goes towards the back, so I think the gun has been directly pointed at the
child."
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