According to Catherine Russell, the Executive Director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), more than 13,800 children have lost their lives in the Gaza Strip since the onset of the war on October 7.
“Thousands have been injured, and thousands more are teetering on the brink of famine,” she stated during a press briefing in New York, as reported by her organization. Additionally, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women released a separate statement revealing that “one child is injured or dies every 10 minutes” in Gaza. The statement further highlighted that over 10,000 women have perished in Gaza since the commencement of the conflict, leaving behind 19,000 orphaned children, with 6,000 of them being women.
UNICEF communication specialist Tess Ingram, who recently visited Gaza, shared her observations during a press conference in Geneva on Tuesday, expressing her shock at the significant number of wounded children she encountered. “Not just in the hospitals, but on the streets, in their makeshift shelters, going about their now permanently altered lives,” she emphasized.
