UNICEF: One million children in Gaza need mental health support

UNICEF estimates that almost all the children in the Gaza Strip require mental health support.

Prior to 7 October, the agency estimated that 50,000 children were in need of help.

“They present symptoms like extremely high levels of persistent anxiety, loss of appetite. They can’t sleep, they have emotional outbursts, or they panic every time they hear a bombing,” said Jonathan Crickx, UNICEF’s chief of communication for the occupied Palestinian territories.