UNICEF: Risk of Famine, Illness, Mortality for Gaza Children Growing Each Day

By Staff, Agencies

UNICEF, originally the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, has issued a new warning about conditions of Palestinian children in Gaza, amid the ongoing "Israeli" blockade of the territory.

UNICEF said on Sunday conditions in Gaza have drastically worsened under "Israel’s" crippling siege in the past two months, noting that children are enduring the entity’s relentless airstrikes while being deprived of essential goods, services, and life-saving care.

The agency called for an immediate ceasefire and the urgent entry of humanitarian aid into the territory.

In separate posts on Sunday, UN agencies decried the daily sufferings and mortality of children in Gaza, buried under relentless airstrikes compounded by the "Israeli" occupation forces' ongoing blockade of emergency aid, including food and medicine, to the besieged Palestinian territory.

“Children in the Gaza are facing relentless bombardments while being deprived of essential goods, services and lifesaving care since the beginning of the conflict,” it said, noting that “For the past two months, the situation has further deteriorated, due to the imposed blockade of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.”

UNICEF further emphasized that “Aid MUST enter Gaza now. The ceasefire MUST be reinstated NOW.”

Similarly, the WFP raised the alarm that the threat of famine in Gaza is real. It called on the international community to find a means to get food past the "Israeli" blockade as soon as possible.

"We call on the international community to act urgently to get aid flowing again.

"If we wait until after a famine is confirmed, it will already be too late for too many," it emphasized.

In the past days, the “Israeli” occupation forces announced that it intended to intensify its attacks on Gaza, using its newly recruited fresh reserve troops to expand its occupation area and force the dislocated Palestinians to new places.