“This week, one child has been killed every 10 minutes in Gaza. Last week, it was one child every 15 minutes. I dread to think what will be the situation next week,” says Jason Lee, Save the Children’s country director for the Occupied Palestinian Territories.In a 25-minute interview with Karan Thapar for The Wire, Lee, who was speaking from East Jerusalem, said that in the last 28 days, more children have been killed in Gaza than in all the world’s conflicts since 2019. There can be no more horrifying indication of the enormity of the plight facing the children of Gaza.He was asked about the accuracy and reliability of the death toll figures, particularly because US President Joe Biden has cast doubt on the overall death count.Although Philippe Lazzarini of the UNRWA has said that the death count is reliably accurate, Lee gave several reasons for accepting the death count put out by the Hamas Ministry of Health in Gaza. It aligns with the death counts from earlier Hamas-Israel wars, although, in overall terms, it’s much greater this time.Lee gave graphic details of the conditions in hospitals, how long they can function, and what will happen when they completely run out of standby fuel and generators. He said that could happen in 48 hours. That means many of the patients in those hospitals – and particularly young children – will face the prospect of a slow painful death.He also spoke about the situation that children are facing, especially those who have not been injured. He talks about the drastic shortage of clean water and the fact that children are now relying on brackish water or saline water from old, disused wells. The threat of a public health catastrophe is looming and getting closer every day.He discussed the cumulative impact on children’s well-being and mental state, resulting from living under an Israeli blockade in Gaza since 2007-2008, which amounts to 16 years.