22/11/2025
At least 67 Palestinian kids have died in Gaza since the "ceasefire" began: UN
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) estimates that at least 67 Palestinian children have died in the Gaza Strip since a ceasefire agreement negotiated by the United States went into force last month.
UNICEF spokesperson Ricardo Pires stated during a press conference in Geneva on Friday that the death toll included a baby girl who died in an Israeli air attack on a home in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, on Thursday.
It also includes seven additional kids who were slain the day before, as Israel launched a series of attacks across the enclave.
"This is happening amid a ceasefire that both sides agreed to. "The pattern is staggering," Pires told reporters about the number of deaths since October 11, the first full day of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
"We've said this many times before: these aren't just numbers. Each one was a child with a family, a dream, and a life that was cut short by more violence."
Palestinian kids have been the most affected by Israel's bombing of Gaza. UNICEF said last month that 64,000 kids had died or been hurt in Israeli attacks since the war started in October 2023.
Save the youngsters said this Wednesday that in 2024, an average of 475 Palestinian youngsters "suffered lifelong disabilities" each month because of the war. These disabilities included burns and traumatic brain damage.
The humanitarian group noted that Gaza is now "home to the largest group of child amputees in modern history."
Israel has also been accused of employing famine as a weapon of war, which has caused a humanitarian crisis in the area that has resulted to the deaths of several children who are especially vulnerable when food supplies run out.
"EVERYWHERE PEOPLE ARE SCREAMING"
near response to what it said was an attack on its troops near Khan Younis in the south of the Strip, the Israeli military carried out a number of air strikes across Gaza this week.
Hamas disagreed with Israel's allegation, claiming that the most recent attacks, which killed at least 32 Palestinians, were "a dangerous escalation" that shows the Israeli government wants "to resume the genocide" in Gaza.
Doctors Without Borders, or MSF for short, stated on Friday that their teams in Gaza had treated numerous Palestinian women and children who suffered "open fractures and gunshot wounds to their limbs and head" during the wave of Israeli attacks.
Zaher, a nurse with MSF who works at a mobile clinic in Gaza City, said they helped a woman with a hurt leg and a nine-year-old kid with a face wound from Israeli quadcopter gunfire.
A patient at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City named Mohammed Malaka stated he heard the noises of two missiles coming in before he passed out.
"I opened my eyes and saw my father on the ground. I also saw my three brothers on the ground, covered in blood and dust," he told MSF.
"I could hear people screaming all over the place..." The tents were now ashes, and people were laying on the ground all around.
Palestinians in Gaza are still having a hard time since Israel won't let humanitarian goods, such tents for displaced families to use during the colder months, get through.
Pires from UNICEF claimed that a lot of kids are "sleeping outside" and "trembling in fear" in flooded, temporary shelters.
He said, "The reality for Gaza's children is brutally simple: there is no safe place for them, and the world cannot continue to normalize their suffering." He called for additional help to be allowed into the region.
"For hundreds of thousands of kids living in tents on the rubble of their old homes, the new winter season makes things worse." Kids are shivering all night because they don't have any heat, insulation, or enough blankets.
