With one killing on average every hour, August is on course to be the deadliest month since the 1992 peace accord.
But refusing to do so is in itself a far-reaching statement – it says the huge price being paid by civilians in Gaza, many of them children, must be censored". Aid agencies said on Wednesday that a child had been killed in Gaza on average every hour for the preceding two days, and more than 70,000 children had been forced to flee their homes.
During the first 24 hours, calibration occurred on average every 2.5 hours, and during the second 24 hours, every 3.5 hours.
Yet homophobia is also entrenched in Brazil, with one gay, trans or bisexual person killed on average every 28 hours.
Police figures show that, in Delhi, a rape is reported on average every 18 hours and some form of sexual attack every 14 hours.
A gun is fired on average every six hours; 96% of London's prostitutes are migrants, as are 60% of its carers.
The capital, New Delhi, has the highest number of sex crimes among major cities, with a rape reported on average every 18 hours, according to police figures.
In South Africa alone, a rhino has been poached on average every ten hours this year to meet demand from Asia, where traditional healers claim the horns are a cure for impotency.
It was a stressful enough experience to go through, but White, who is single and doesn't drive, also faced a four-hour round trip, on a good day, to get to a hospital that was only 13 miles away, because buses from her village of Tatworth, Somerset only run on average every two hours.
A new company started, on average, every 44 hours.
This is also probably why a new Starbucks opens in China, on average, every 15 hours.
