Gaza now a 'graveyard' for thousands of children: UN
Gaza Strip has become a graveyard for thousands of children, the United Nations said Tuesday, as it feared the prospect of more dying of dehydration.
Israel has heavily bombarded Gaza since Hamas gunmen stormed across the border on October 7, killing 1,400 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapping at least 240 others, according to Israeli officials.
The health ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip said the strikes have killed more than 8,500 people, mainly civilians.
The UN children's agency UNICEF said there was a risk that the number of child deaths directly from bombardment could become eclipsed.
«Our gravest fears about the reported numbers of children killed becoming dozens, then hundreds, and ultimately thousands were realised in just a fortnight,» UNICEF spokesman James Elder said in a statement.
«The numbers are appalling; reportedly more than 3,450 children killed; staggeringly this rises significantly every day.»
«Gaza has become a graveyard for thousands of children.
It's a living hell for everyone else.»
He said the more than one million children living in the Gaza Strip were also suffering from a lack of clean water.
«Gaza's water production capacity is a mere five percent of its usual daily output.
