Egypt Daily News – UNICEF confirms that more than 50,000 children have been killed or injured in Gaza since October 2023, describing the situation as “unbearable atrocities” against childhood. The organization called for an immediate ceasefire and urgent international action to end the war.
In a strongly worded statement, UNICEF described what children in Gaza are enduring as “unbearable atrocities,” revealing that over 50,000 children have been killed or wounded since October 7, 2023 — an average of one child every 20 minutes — amid what it called a “brutal and merciless” war.
UNICEF’s Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, Edward Begbeder, said that recent attacks — including the bombing of the Al-Najjar family home in Khan Younis and a school in Gaza City — revealed horrifying scenes of children burned or torn apart, with 18 children killed in a single day. He added that children in Gaza “are no longer statistics but witnesses to the destruction of life itself,” pointing to a series of grave violations: from starvation and siege to forced displacement and the destruction of schools, hospitals, and vital infrastructure.
UNICEF renewed its call for an immediate ceasefire, protection for children and civilians, access for humanitarian aid, and the release of all hostages. It concluded by stating: “The children of Gaza need more than food and medicine… they need urgent and collective action to end this tragedy.”
