The UK’s deputy UN ambassador James Kariuki recently told the Security Council: “Gaza has become the deadliest place in the world to be a child.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported on Thursday that of the 40,717 Palestinian bodies identified so far in Gaza, one-third – 13,319 – were children. The office said the figures came from Gaza’s Ministry of Health.
UN deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said nearly 19,000 children had been taken to hospital for acute malnutrition in the four months before December.
A Palestinian mother holds her five-year-old daughter suffering from malnutrition, at a shelter they live after being displaced by the war, in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. (Photo: Eyad Baba/ AFP via Getty Images)
The UN says thousands of children have also been orphaned or separated from their parents during the 15-month war.
Diplomats from Britain, France and other countries also cited the toll on Israeli children who were killed, injured and abducted during Hamas’ attack on southern Israel on October 7 2023 – with some still being held hostage.
“The trauma they have endured is beyond imagination,” he said.
“The children of Gaza could have had a future filled with opportunity,” he said.
With wires
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