The Director of the World Health Organization has described as ‘heartbreaking’ the situation in Gaza hospitals and renewed calls for protection for all hospitals across the besieged Gaza strip.

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) says the high rate of child fatality in the besieged Gaza will remain a ‘stain on all of humanity’ urging for an end to Israel’s genocidal war on the besieged Gaza Strip.

In a video posted on X account, Elder shed light on the plight of children striving to survive in Rafah amid Israeli assaults, following the influx of 1.5 million people into the area as a result of the ongoing Israeli aggression.

According to the prisoner advocacy groups, this represents the only available data regarding detained children from Gaza, with the actual number potentially even higher.

The regional director of the UN agency for children in West Asia and North Africa has warned that more Palestinian children in the besieged Gaza are gradually falling victim to starvation amid fears of an ‘impending famine’ caused by Israel’s brutal war in the blockaded territory.

The report, which was issued during the UN body’s 55th session in Geneva,  stressed that Israel violates children’s rights, where Palestinian children living under Israeli military occupation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip are routinely deprived of their right to life, education, adequate housing and the right to health care.

The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said that the number of children killed in Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip tops the total number killed in four years of world conflict.

A total of 8,900 women have been killed in besieged Palestinian enclave, according to latest toll

“All children living in the Gaza Strip have lost their childhood,” says Ann Skelton, Chair of the UN Child Rights Committee.

“(Eight-three) children have been killed in the past twelve weeks – more than double the number of children killed in all of 2022, amid increased military and law enforcement operations,” Adele Khodr, the organization’s regional director for Middle East and North Africa said in a statement.

​​​​​​​In a statement on the occasion of World Children's Day, the Arab League stressed that all Palestinian children have the right to live a safe and calm life away from all causes of fear, displacement, and all forms of violence.

Since intensification of Israeli onslaughts against Gaza, more than 4,300 Palestinians children have lost their lives as a result of the attacks. More than 1,350 other children are missing under the rubble, all of whom are presumed dead. The UN has warned the besieged Gaza Strip is turning into a graveyard of children as the Israeli forces have killed ...

A top UN official has rebuked the nonstop Israeli bloody strikes against the besieged Gaza Strip warning that Gaza is turning into a graveyard for the Palestinian children.

A charity organization, Save the Children, has issued figures showing that the number of children killed in the Gaza Strip as a result of Israel’s ongoing aggression has exceeded annual figures related to global conflicts over the past four years.

The latest of these crimes was the execution of the 16-year-old child Milad Munther Al-Ra’i, 16 years old, in Al-Arroub refugee camp in the West Bank.

When the police or army shoot a child anywhere in the world, it can usually be argued, at least in theory, that the killing was an unfortunate and tragic mistake. But when thousands of children are killed and wounded in a systematic, “routine” and comparable method within a relatively short period of time, there has to be something very deliberate ...

The report pointed out that although 2022 was the deadliest year for Palestinian children in 15 years, the number of deaths for 2023 are already on course to surpass the 2022 levels. As of August 2023, 34 children have been killed.  

Last week, Israel demolished an elementary school for Palestinian children living in Ein Samiyah. The school was built in 2022 with funds from the EU, providing Palestinian children in the community with access to education closer to their homes, Ramona Wadi wrote in an article in the Middle East Manitor.

A Palestinian rights advocacy group says Israeli forces have arrested 570 Palestinian minors in the first six months of 2023.

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation has denounced Tel Aviv regime over fatal shooting of the two-year-old Palestinian child and urged for an international probe into the crime.