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00:00Well, I'll get into details in a moment. But with these devastating events becoming so frequent, do you think the world has to any degree become desensitized or do stories like the two doctors and their 10 children and the tragic consequence of what happened to them have the power to stop the conflict or at least cause a pause?
00:20I mean, for sure, the numbers are overwhelming. You know, the latest child fatality count for the entirety of the war is at least 16,500 children who've been reported killed. And those are children who've been killed in airstrikes and in explosions.
00:43There's also lots of children who have died sort of as a secondary consequence of this war. I, for instance, have interviewed countless children who were severely ill, including an 11-year-old boy with leukemia.
00:57And after I interview these children, a couple of days or weeks later, I usually check in with the parents to see how the child is doing and also what type of support, you know, they've been receiving from UNICEF.
01:10In Islam's case, I interviewed him end of October. And when I checked in mid-November, turned out that he had passed away because of care not being available inside the Gaza Strip.
01:24So the suffering, the deaths go beyond the bombs and the bullets. Children are also dying as a result of the living conditions.