This statement was issued by UNICEF's Middle East and North Africa Regional Director, Edouard Beigbeder, after concluding a four-day mission to the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The UN agency for children’s rights (UNICEF) has warned against critical shortage of water in the besieged Gaza Strip with only 10% of people having access to drinking water.
Another Palestinian child has succumbed to the severe winter cold in the besieged Gaza Strip amid the freezing temperature and lack of humanitarian aid.
Israeli forces have shot dead two Palestinian children in separate raids in West Bank as the regime ordered intensification in the occupied territories.
The child, Zakaria Hamid Yahya Barbakh, was killed near Al-Awda Square in central Rafah when Israeli forces opened fire. Another child was injured while attempting to retrieve Zakaria’s body, it said.
Israeli forces have killed nearly 70 Palestinian minors only in five days of aggression against north Gaza as the regime continues its massacre of the civilians across the besieged strip.
The UN agency for children’s rights has released a report on dozens of Palestinian children being killed as a result of the Israeli incessant strikes against the besieged Gaza in the first week after the New Year 2025.
More than a year of Israeli genocidal war on Gaza has left a trail of death and destruction behind. More than 45,000 people, most of them women and children, have lost their lives in relentless Israeli attacks that mainly target the civilian infrastructures. Ibrahim Giroux, professor at University of Gaston Berger in Senegal, has particularly denounced ...
The article documents disturbing incidents, including one commander’s unprovoked attack on a four-year-old child. “The commander suddenly starts running, grabs the boy, and breaks his arm at the elbow and his leg here.
The UN agency for children has condemned the Israeli killing of 50 Palestinian children in Gaza in a matter of 48 hours calling that another ‘dark chapter’ in the regime’s ‘terrible’ war against the besieged territory.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children are among the most vulnerable threatened by starvation as the Israeli regime continues with relentless strikes as it blocks entry of humanitarian necessities into the besieged strip.
Palestinian authorities announced that nearly 17,000 Palestinian children have been killed and almost 26,000 others have been orphaned since the regime unleashed its genocidal war on October 7, 2023.