Catherine Russell, the Executive Director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), reported that since the fighting began on October 7, nearly 13,800 children had died in the Gaza Strip.
Russell underlined the seriousness of the situation during a press conference in New York, saying, “Thousands have sustained injuries, and many more are teetering on the edge of famine,” according to a UNICEF release.
The UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women stated in a different statement that “one child is either injured or loses their life every 10 minutes” in Gaza.
Furthermore, the declaration disclosed the startling toll on women, with more than 10,000 lost since the conflict started, leaving 19,000 children orphaned, six thousand of whom were women.
During a press conference in Geneva on Tuesday, Tess Ingram, a UNICEF communication specialist who just visited Gaza, offered her observations. She described the enormous number of injured children she saw, whose lives had been irrevocably changed by the fighting, not only in hospitals but also on the streets and in temporary shelters.
