NEW YORK November 23. 2023 (Saba) - Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has considered that the Gaza Strip has become "the most dangerous place in the world for children," considering that humanitarian truces are not "sufficient" to stop the "massacre."
UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell confirmed in a video speech before the UN Security Council after her visit to the southern Gaza Strip that “more than 5,300 children were killed in just 46 days, that is, 115 children a day over weeks and weeks.”
Russell explained “According to these numbers, children constitute 40 percent of the dead in Gaza, stressing “This is unprecedented,” adding, “In other words, the Gaza Strip is the most dangerous place in the world for children.”
The UNICEF Executive Director also indicated that 1,200 children were missing, some of whom were likely still under the rubble left by the bombing.
Russell expressed her concern about the epidemic dangers, the near absence of safe drinking water, especially for infants, and the effects of malnutrition.
She warned that "the children of Gaza are living in a state of extreme danger due to catastrophic living conditions. One million children, all the children of the Strip, are facing food insecurity that may soon turn into a catastrophic crisis linked to malnutrition."
The Director of the United Nations Children's Fund considered that humanitarian truces are not enough, while welcoming the announced agreement between the Zionist entity and the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas to release hostages held in Gaza in exchange for a four-day truce.
"UNICEF is calling for an urgent humanitarian ceasefire to put an immediate end to this massacre," Russell said.
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resource : Saba
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