00:00Dozens of Palestinian children were killed in the recent Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip,
00:08while hundreds were injured and many remain missing beneath the rubble of their homes.
00:14The home of the Botniji family, who had recently returned to Gaza Strip after being displaced in the south,
00:22was targeted by an Israeli airstrike.
00:25The CGTN team documented the horrific moments that followed as the families searched for their surviving children.
00:35I was bathing my child after hitting the water when we suddenly heard an explosion.
00:40We had nothing with us.
00:42My son, Muayyad, is with me.
00:44This is my daughter.
00:45She's the only one who survived the attack.
00:48My four children were killed in two previous bombings, and this is the third time.
00:55The women of the Botniji family were stunned by the sudden Israeli booming of their home,
01:00leaving them no time to rescue their children, who were playing the Kurd chart.
01:06The children were playing here when we suddenly heard the shelling.
01:10Some of our children were killed, and the others were badly injured.
01:14At the beginning of the conflict, we survived a massacre in Shajia, where many of our family members were killed.
01:21My children who were killed today survived that previous attack.
01:26Children make up nearly half of the Gaza Strip's population and are living in extremely difficult conditions,
01:34and it's under ongoing Israeli shelling.
01:37The number of child victims arriving at hospitals has reached record levels.
01:44We have received a large number of injuries, most of them children.
01:48The nature of the injuries was fatal, especially for children,
01:51as their small bodies cannot withstand this amount of explosives and the brutality of the bombing.
01:57UNICEF issued a statement describing the reports and images emerging from the Gaza Strip
02:03after the attacks of Azbayan terrifying,
02:06as one million children in Gaza have once again been plunged into a world of fear and death.
02:14Amid the ongoing Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip,
02:17Palestinian children are the most vulnerable within the Israeli targeting scoop.
02:23Along with women, they make up the highest percentage of victims in the war on Gaza Strip.
02:30Elena Eliasvi, CGTN, Northern Gaza Strip.
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