UNICEF: More Than 17 thousand Children in Gaza are living without their parents

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced that more than 17 thousand children in Gaza Strip became without parents or separated from their families during the Israeli aggression on stricken Strip, noting that most of these children need mental support.

“The children show symptoms such as extremely high levels of constant anxiety and loss of appetite, they cannot sleep and they feel panic every time they hear the sound of shelling,” said Jonathan Greeks, director of communications at UNICEF’s office in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

He pointed out that before this war, UNICEF considered that 500 thousand children needed mental , psychological and social support in Gaza, while today it is estimated that almost all children needed such support, i.e. more than 1 million children.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that the number of victims of the ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza Strip for the 119th day has increased to 27,131 martyrs and 66,287 wounded, mostly children and women.

Amal Farhat