More than 13,800 children have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas, according to the Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef), Catherine Russell.
“Thousands of people have been injured and thousands are on the brink of starvation,” she said during a news conference in New York.
In a separate statement, UN Women – the United Nations entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women – said that “a child is injured or dies every 10 minutes” in Gaza.
Furthermore, the organization states that more than 10,000 women have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war, and 6,000 of them left 19,000 orphaned children behind.
Unicef communications specialist Tess Ingram, who recently visited the enclave, said in Geneva on Tuesday that what struck her was the number of injured children she saw.
“Not just in hospitals, but on the streets, in their makeshift shelters, living their now permanently altered lives,” she said.
A CNN cannot independently verify death figures due to lack of media access to Gaza.
Source: CNN Brasil
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