‘No safe space for children in Gaza’: UNICEF
The UN agency for children’s Regional Director for Middle East and North Africa Adele Khodr has urged world leaders to secure a ceasefire deal, warning that the daily violence in Gaza should not be the “new normal.”
“With each day passing, the violence intensifies in #Gaza: small children’s bodies being pulled out from under the rubble, injured children crying in fear with no safe space or place remaining for them,” she posted on X.
“The daily violence should not become the new normal. World leaders have to act to save children’s lives. A ceasefire is needed now.”
As the official death toll of the genocidal war last week surpassed the ominous 40,000 Palestinian death mark, at least half of the fatalities are women and children. Forty percent of the total killed, 16,000, are children. Of these, 2,100 were aged under two. At least 17,000 Palestinians are now orphaned or have no living relatives to claim them. No fewer than 12,000 children are wounded, with an unknown number having lost at least one limb.
