Gaza Herald – UNICEF warns that two years of relentless bombing and siege have produced catastrophic losses among Gaza’s children, with more than 64,000 children killed or injured, over 56,000 children having lost one or both parents, and the entire under-five population (≈320,000 children) now at risk of acute malnutrition as famine spreads in parts of the Strip.
These figures underline an unfolding child protection and nutrition emergency that requires immediate, unrestricted humanitarian access and life-saving nutrition interventions.
The agency says the scale of destruction, with schools, hospitals, and homes shattered, means generations of children face irreversible harm to their health, development, and education unless the world moves now to stop the killing, lift the siege and deliver massive, sustained aid, including therapeutic nutrition, clean water and medical care.
UNICEF urges governments and aid agencies to treat this as an emergency of the highest order and warns that without rapid action, child mortality and long-term disability will surge.
