UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell condemns deadly attacks, calls for urgent investigation

In a statement, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell urged the Israeli occupation authorities to conduct a "prompt investigation" into the circumstances surrounding the attack on one of the organization's staff members on Saturday in Jabalia, northern Gaza.

The UN agency for children has condemned the Israeli killing of 50 Palestinian children in Gaza in a matter of 48 hours calling that another ‘dark chapter’ in the regime’s ‘terrible’ war against the besieged territory.

'If this lethally slow pace continues, it would take more than seven years to evacuate the 2,500 children needing urgent medical care,' says spokesperson

“If you look at Gaza really through the eyes of a child, it is a hellscape,” UNICEF’s executive director Catherine Russell told CBS News’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday, noting the toll of family deaths and displacements, as well as ongoing lack of food and clean water.

In a statement shared on X (formerly Twitter), UNICEF highlighted its efforts to provide emergency medical supplies and essential services to affected communities in Lebanon.

The UN agency for children has reported some 100 children have so far been killed in less than the past two weeks of Israeli aggression against Lebanon.

Palestinian authorities announced that nearly 17,000 Palestinian children have been killed and almost 26,000 others have been orphaned since the regime unleashed its genocidal war on October 7, 2023.

In a press statement, Chaiban highlighted the tragic loss of over 14,000 children in Gaza since the beginning of the ongoing Israeli onslaught on the enclave, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

Several UN agencies have called for a ceasefire or at least a ‘polio pause’ in the war-torn Gaza to vaccinate more than 640,000 children in the besieged strip.

'We talk about 10,000 girls and boys displaced everyday,' says James Elder, UNICEF spokesman

The UN agency for children has warned that the ongoing Israeli strikes on Gaza have inflicted mental and emotional damage on Palestinian children in Gaza depriving them of any chance of a normal childhood.

In a statement issued on Saturday, UNICEF condemned the Israeli army’s bombing of Al-Tabi’in School, which resulted in over 100 deaths and dozens of injuries. It described the attack as “horrifying”, noting that it targeted a place where children and families believed they were safe.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has registered a 25% increase in the number of children killed in the occupied West Bank since the Israeli regime launched its genocidal war on the besieged Gaza Strip in early October.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said 90 percent of the people in Gaza Strip, many of them children, have been displaced since Israeli regime began onslaughts on the besieged Strip on October 7.

The spokesman of the UN agency for children said that the impact of the ongoing war on Palestinian children confirms the prevailing belief that the war in Gaza is a war on children.

The UN agency for children (UNICEF) has warned that nearly 3,000 Palestinian minors in south Gaza are at risk of death due to being cut off from treatment for moderate and severe malnutrition.

The UNICEF spokesman has called for an immediate stop of attacks on hopeless Palestinians in Gaza condemning the continuation of bombings despite the devastating situation in besieged territory.

The UN fund for children said nine out of ten children in Gaza do not have access to enough food which is necessary for their growth and development.

The United Nations children’s agency (UNICEF) has condemned as “horrific” the impacts of the ongoing Israeli war against Gaza calling for an end to the “indiscriminate” killing of the children in the besieged strip.