24 September 2025
Another heavy night in Gaza with too many children reported killed or injured.
Gaza is now home to the highest number of child amputees per capita worldwide, estimated at up to 4,000 since the war began IRC.
The toll on children and childhood is beyond just the physical injury and the spreading hunger.
Children’s scars are deep and invisible: anxiety, nightmares, aggression and fear.
Many are being forced into begging, looting or child labour: a lost childhood.
The longer this goes on, the more the children will be haunted by their ongoing and deepening traumas for generations to come.
If not for the sake of anyone else, then at least for children
Document Type: Social media post, Statement
Document Sources: United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)
Subject: Armed conflict, Casualties, Children, Gaza Strip, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Refugees and displaced persons
Publication Date: 24/09/2025
URL source: https://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/official-statements/unrwa-commissioner-general-gaza-gaza-now-home-highest-number-child
Document Sources: United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)
Subject: Armed conflict, Casualties, Children, Gaza Strip, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Refugees and displaced persons
Publication Date: 24/09/2025
URL source: https://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/official-statements/unrwa-commissioner-general-gaza-gaza-now-home-highest-number-child