children's agency said on Sunday over 13,000 children have been killed in Gaza in Israel's offensive, adding many kids were suffering from severe malnutrition and did not "even have the energy to cry." UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell did not provide a source for t...
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The Convention on the Rights of the Child helps to transform children's lives. Learn moreLearn more Appeal Children in Gaza need life-saving support UNICEF and partners are surging aid now View the appeal Statement 12 February 2025 Statement by UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and ...
(Reuters) - The Gaza Strip is the "most dangerous place in the world to be a child," the head of the United Nations children's agency UNICEF said on Wednesday. UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell told the U.N. Security Council that more than 5,300 Palestinian child...
Nearly 70% of those killed in Gaza as part of Israel’s war on the Palestinian militant group Hamas have been children and women, the UN Human Rights Office said in a new report on Friday, released 13 months after the start of the latest hostilities in the enclave. ...
UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- Nearly 20 percent of the children across the Middle East and North Africa - over 90 percent of whom live in conflict-affected countries - need immediate humanitarian assistance, a UN report said on Monday. ...
TEHRAN, Dec. 07 (MNA) – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has voiced concern about the “catastrophic and horrible situation” of Palestinian children in the northern part of the besieged Gaza Strip.
The report, which featured a recent UNICEF analysis covering 11 countries in the Middle East and North Africa, said that these children are deprived of the minimum requirements in two or more of the most basic life necessities including basic education, decent housing, nutritious food, quality hea...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — At least 242 million children in 85 countries had their schooling interrupted last year because of heatwaves, cyclones, flooding and other extreme weather, the United Nations Children’s Fund said in a new report Friday. UNICEF said it amounted to one in se...