About 28 children die daily in Gaza: Unicef

The Unicef’s Executive Director Catherine Russell said that an average of 28 children are killed daily in Gaza since the war has broken out in 7 October 2023.

“A whole a whole classroom of children killed every day for nearly two years,” she told the UN security council, adding that more than 17,000 kids have reportedly been killed and 33,000 wounded in the ongoing war.

Russell added that malnutrition has surged with nearly 6,000 children acutely malnourished in June. This is a 180 percent increase since February.

Food supplies are running out and Gaza civilians are being shot while seeking something to eat, UN Undersecretary-General Tom Fletcher said.

“Civilians are exposed to death and injury, forcible displacement, stripped of dignity,” Fletcher told the Security Council.