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Adele Khader, Regional Director of UNICEF for the Middle East and North Africa, said on Saturday that “the Gaza Strip has become the most dangerous place in the world for children,” noting that about a million children were forced to forcibly move from their homes.
Adele Khader, UNICEF's Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, stressed on Saturday that "the Gaza Strip has become the most dangerous place in the world for children."
Khader said, in a statement published on the organization’s website: “The Gaza Strip has become the most dangerous place in the world for children after about one million children were forced to forcibly move from their homes.”
She added that dozens of children are killed and injured every day, and that entire neighborhoods, where children used to play and go to school, have turned into piles of rubble, lifeless.
She continued: “UNICEF and other humanitarian agencies have been sounding the alarm for weeks. Our team on the ground describes encountering children who lost limbs and suffered third-degree burns, and children who were traumatized by the ongoing violence surrounding them.”
On Saturday, the Gaza municipality warned that half a million Palestinians were threatened by starvation and thirst in the Strip as the Israeli aggression continued.
Gaza Municipality spokesman, Hosni Muhanna, said, “The humanitarian conditions in Gaza are becoming more catastrophic with the worsening health and environmental crises in light of the severe shortages of water and food, and the continued interruption of electricity supplies to the Strip since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on October 7 last year.”
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