In Gaza, where bombs rain faster than aid, childhood is now measured in limbs lost. A new report by the UN Human Rights Office reveals that ten children a day are losing one or both legs amid Israel’s ongoing assault, a figure that paints a harrowing picture of a war waged on the bodies of the young.

Hospitals, drained of supplies and running on the last flickers of electricity, are forced to amputate in horrifying conditions, without anaesthesia, without sterilised equipment, and often without hope. Over 134,000 people have been wounded since the beginning of the war, including more than 40,000 children. Tens of thousands suffer hearing loss from the relentless bombardment.

UNICEF warns that Gaza now has the highest number of child amputees per capita in the world. Aid organisations on the ground report more than 3,000 children have already lost limbs, a number that grows with every passing day and every delayed ceasefire.

In overcrowded wards, children lie in silence, their questions as painful as their wounds. Ten-year-old Yahya, who lost both legs, asks only when he can play football again, a question no parent, no doctor, no surviving soul can answer.

The world’s outrage mounts, but the bombs do not stop. What remains is a generation crippled not only in body, but in future. In Gaza, the price of survival is often a leg, and the cost of war is borne most heavily by those who never chose to fight.