In a statement, Regional Director of UNICEF, Adele Khodr, said that “in the past 72 three Palestinian children were killed in the latest military operation in Tulkarem in the West Bank and at least another 14 children were reportedly killed in Rafah, Gaza.”

In a separate statement, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women conveyed that “one child is injured or dies every ten minutes” in Gaza.  The statement added that more than 10,000 women have been killed in Gaza since the war began, with 6,000 of them leaving 19,000 orphaned children behind. UNICEF communications specialist ...

Over 12,000 children, almost 70 every day, injured in Gaza, says UNICEF communication specialist, calling the figure 'almost certainly an underestimate'

​​​​​​​Elder explained to Anadolu Agency that "Palestinians are struggling to survive under extremely harsh conditions."

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.

While addressing the UN from Rafah on Tuesday, Elder added that adolescents and teenage girls say they "hope to be killed" to "end their nightmare".

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.

1 in 6 children under 2 years of age acutely malnourished in northern Gaza, UN children’s agency says

Military operations in densely populated residential areas can have indiscriminate effects, warns UN agency

Crickx stresses that today all children, over 1M, in Gaza need mental support.

Ingram said that over the 105 days that the tension escalated in the Gaza Strip, about 20,000 babies were born into the atmosphere of war, noting that this means one baby is born every 10 minutes.

“With every passing day, children and families in the Gaza Strip face increased risk of death from the sky, disease from lack of safe water and deprivation from lack of food,” UNICEF Special Representative on Children in Palestine, Lucia Elmi, said at a UN press conference.

'Futures of thousands more children in Gaza hang in the balance. The world cannot stand by and watch,' says director

“(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.

Child mortality rate in Gaza 'twice' greater than UNICEF has seen in over 40 conflicts, deputy executive director tells Anadolu

The United Nations Children’s Agency has condemned Israeli full blockade of the Gaza Strip warning that the total siege stands for death sentence for the Palestinian children there.

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.

Authorities fear that these numbers are only likely to increase

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.

In a statement, UNICEF emphasized that "over one million children have recently been displaced due to two months of conflict in Sudan."