Rome, 7 Apr. (LaPresse) – The press office of the Hamas-controlled Gaza government has announced that 490 children have been killed in the Strip in the last 20 days. This was reported by the Arab media. ‘This is a shocking crime of genocide’, explained the Gaza authorities in a statement, speaking of ‘a bitter reality in which entire families are wiped out, childhoods are buried under the rubble of homes and a new dark history is being written in the annals of crimes that will not be forgotten with the passage of time’.