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FAIRFIELD, Conn. (Oct. 7, 2023)\u2014<\/strong>In response to the escalation in violence between Palestinian armed groups and Israeli forces in Israel and\u00a0Gaza\u00a0today, Jason Lee,\u00a0Save the Children\u2019s Country Director for the occupied Palestinian territory, gave the following statement:<\/p>\n Save the Children\u2019s Country Director for the occupied Palestinian territory, Jason Lee, said:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cFollowing an escalation in violence between Palestinian armed groups and Israeli forces in Israel and Gaza today,\u00a0our teams and their families are bracing for what comes next. We know from previous experience that children will be terrified. Children have been killed and injured in every major escalation, not to mention\u00a0suffering from\u00a0serious mental health impacts\u2014they\u2019ve never emerged unscathed. All parties must show restraint and focus on keeping children and families safe and bringing an end to the fear and suffering they have endured for far too long.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FAIRFIELD, Conn. (Oct. 7, 2023)\u2014In response to the escalation in violence between Palestinian armed groups and Israeli forces in Israel and\u00a0Gaza\u00a0today, Jason Lee,\u00a0Save the Children\u2019s Country Director for the occupied Palestinian territory, gave the following statement: Save the Children\u2019s Country Director for the occupied Palestinian territory, Jason Lee, said:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cFollowing an escalation in violence […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":301,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1329,1338],"document-source":[4678],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1769,1829,2033,2005,2309,6245],"entity":[],"document-language":[],"class_list":["post-289404","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-press-release","document-category-statement","document-source-save-the-children","document-subject-armed-conflict","document-subject-casualties","document-subject-children","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-protection","document-subject-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/289404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/301"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/289404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289406,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/289404\/revisions\/289406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=289404"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=289404"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=289404"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=289404"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=289404"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=289404"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=289404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}