In other news from Gaza, the U.N. food agency has issued a dire warning, stating, “Over one million people — half the population of Gaza — are expected to face death and starvation by mid-July” if Israel’s war on Gaza does not end. The warning comes in a new report on global hunger that also says the risk of starvation...
Following the deadly Israeli strike on Rafah, James Elder, #Unicef Global Spokesperson, tells FRANCE24's Tom Burges Watson that 'safe zones in Gaza are a dangerous narrative'. He says that so-called safe zones in Gaza cannot guarantee food, water and medicine to survive. 'These safe zones have none of those things, and they get bombed' he says, adding that 'Gaza remains hell on earth for boys and girls and their families'. #Rafah#Israel#Gaza
Apporter un soutien concret et immédiat à ceux qui sont en première ligne de cette crise humanitaire. Grâce à votre soutien, l'UNICEF pourra fournir de la nourriture et des médicaments aux enfants victimes de ce conflit.
»a city of #children and families in despair […] I spoke with a young #boy and his sister. The boy had lost one of his eyes. His sister flashed a beautiful smile but was also incredibly shy because her face has been so disfigured by the bombings. Across the corridor was a #mother who had just had her leg amputated; she was laying in a bed next to her critically injured son. Her husband was downstairs; he has had two limbs amputated«
"In Rafah I saw children who had amputations, but were living in tents because hospitals are full. Those children – and many, many more – are now being told to go to zones such as Al Mawasi. The so called “safe zone” of Al Mawasi: where UNICEF reported on a little boy, Mustafa, who went to get some parsley for the family dinner. Mustafa was shot in the head, and killed … in the “safe zone” of Al Mawasi"
Israel just can't stop targeting aid workers. Incredible! Then they scream that aid is there but not being delivered. Who would want to risk being blown up?
Israel continue à cibler les ONG d'aide aux palestiniens. Aujourd'hui, c'est un véhicule de l'UNICEF qui a été attaqué #ZionistIsrael #génocideGaza #UNICEF
UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell says 13,000 children has been killed and countless others injured during intense Israeli attacks on the enclave.
“Homes, schools and hospitals in ruin. Teachers, doctors and humanitarians killed. Famine is imminent. The level and speed of destruction are shocking. Children need a ceasefire NOW,” Russell wrote on X.
"My view on #Gaza: it is not just a humanitarian crisis; it is a moral one. It is a test for our humanity & ability to save the children’s lives. The action or lack of it, will have a consequence on the future & history will judge our collective actions."
Adele Khodr
UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East
»Speaking from #Rafah in southern #Gaza, #UN Children’s Fund spokesperson James #Elder said that 13,750 #children have now been #killed according to Gaza’s health authorities, amid Israeli airstrikes and bombardment launched in response to #Hamas-led #terror attacks on #Israel on 7 October. […]
the #UNICEF official also noted that the agency’s own data indicated that one in three children under two years old now suffer from acute #malnutrition.«
The #UNICEF chief Catherine Russell says, "The body begins to consume itself, and it is a very painful death process. "
"The entire ward is completely quiet because the children and babies do not even have the energy to cry."
Ukraine will receive $18 million from Education Cannot Wait, a UNICEF-backed fund, to provide educational support to children affected by the war, Ukraine's Education Minister Oksen Lisovyi announced in a signing ceremony at the United Nations in New York on March 12.
“The sense of helplessness and despair among parents and doctors in realising that lifesaving aid, just a few kilometres away, is being kept out of reach, must be as unbearable, but worse still are the anguished cries of those babies slowly perishing under the world’s gaze. The lives of thousands more babies and children depend on urgent action being taken now.”
UNICEF: Zehntausenden Kindern im Sudan droht Hungertod
UNICEF hat erneut vor einer humanitären Katastrophe im Sudan gewarnt. Durch die Folgen des Bürgerkriegs in dem afrikanischen Land litten Hunderttausende Kinder Hunger, Millionen seien auf der Flucht. Außerdem wachse die Cholera-Gefahr.
#UNICEF / 17,000 children in Gaza were unaccompanied or have been separated from their families, nearly all children thought to require mental health support
"Before this war, UNICEF was considering already that 500,000 children were already in need of mental health and psychosocial support in Gaza. Today, we estimate that almost all children are in need of that support, and that's more than 1 million children."
“UNICEF has described the Gaza Strip as the most dangerous place in the world to be a child. We have said this is a war on children. But these truths do not seem to be getting through.”
Deputy Executive Director @TedChaiban
following his visit to Gaza. Read full statement:
More Palestinian children were killed by Israeli forces in the illegally occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem in 2023 than in any previous recorded year, the United Nations Children's Fund announced on Thursday.
#UNICEF Photo of the year 2023 Winner is "#Ukraine - Under the dark clouds of war" by Patryk Jaracz
"5-year-old Alina is practicing riding her bike, followed by her friends. A moment of lightheartedness on some meadow in the northwest of Ukraine, banishing the dark clouds of misery, for a while at least. The night before, a drone strike set fire to an oil depot nearby. This time it was just an oil depot, not a residential building, not a hospital, not a school"
U.N. Warns 1 Million Gazans Could Face Deadly Starvation by Mid-July (www.democracynow.org)
In other news from Gaza, the U.N. food agency has issued a dire warning, stating, “Over one million people — half the population of Gaza — are expected to face death and starvation by mid-July” if Israel’s war on Gaza does not end. The warning comes in a new report on global hunger that also says the risk of starvation...
UNICEF grant to provide $18 million in education funding (kyivindependent.com)
Ukraine will receive $18 million from Education Cannot Wait, a UNICEF-backed fund, to provide educational support to children affected by the war, Ukraine's Education Minister Oksen Lisovyi announced in a signing ceremony at the United Nations in New York on March 12.