Last week marked 300 days since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza has affected Palestinian children more than most. The UN estimates that 40% of casualties in Gaza are children, while the latest figures from the Hamas-run health ministry in the ...
"Many times, when you are in an unstable area, a conflict zone, both the governments themselves and armed groups produce a series of restrictions that do not allow you to access where the patients are," she explained. Legislation at local level is also a challenge, according to Conde. "We...
"We are scraping the bottom of the barrel," said UN Children's Fund Senior Emergency Coordinator in Gaza, Hamish Young, who told journalists in Geneva that no fuel or humanitarian aid has entered the Gaza Strip for five days. "This is already a huge issue for the population and all human...
Gaza Children Yearn for Their School Days Before Conflict More Reuters Palestinian school children Abed Al-Qara and Muhammad Al-Fajem inspect their school which was destroyed during Israel's military offensive, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaz...
Explained: Stages of the ceasefire Thank you for following our coverage, we're pausing our updates on this live page. Before we go, here's a summary of the day's events... Hamas has released the bodies of four Israeli hostages - Shiri Bibas and her two...
"As you can see, diseases are rampant here, and the children are barefoot. They could get injured," Dawas explained. Dawas began using his carpentry skills to craft wooden shoes. Sourcing wood from tents and borrowing tools from neighbors, he started producing shoes not only ...
"Our children's lives have turned from calm and stability to chaos and destruction," Yahya's mother said. Eleven-year-old Lana Shamlakh does homework in the tent that houses her family in in Deir al Balah, Gaza.Ruwaida Amer Mahmoud Al-Ghazali also explained that the school ...
The U.N. agencies for children, health and migration also stressed that UNRWA is the “backbone” of the world body’s operations in Gaza, wherepeople have relied on its emergency food aidand health centers during the more than yearlong war, which has killed t...
000 of the reported deaths are Hamas fighters. Andrew Fox, the lead author of the HJS report, explained: “The failure to separate civilian and combatant casualties contributes to a narrative that civilian populations, particularly women and children, bear the brunt of the conflict, influencing ...
Haj Ahmed, who works as a teacher, explained that the presence of a special section for children in the same center gave her more freedom to take care of beauty and wellbeing. "I can leave my daughter at the kid's area ... We can have dinner together at the cafe when I'm done,...