Arabic\/\u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629<\/a><\/p>\n GENEVA, 13 October 2023 \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cHundreds and hundreds of children have been killed and injured. Every hour in Gaza the number of children killed rises. The killing of children must stop.<\/p>\n \u201cThe images and stories are clear: children with horrendous burns, mortar wounds, and lost limbs. And hospitals are utterly overwhelmed to treat them. Yet the numbers keep rising.<\/p>\n \u201cIsraeli children being held hostage in Gaza must be safely and immediately reunited with their families and loved ones.<\/p>\n \u201cThe humanitarian situation has reached lethal lows, and yet all reports point to further attacks. Compassion \u2013 and international law \u2013 must prevail.<\/p>\n \u201cUNICEF is calling for an immediate cease fire as 1.1 million people \u2013 nearly half of them children – have been warned to move out of the way ahead of what is expected to be a ground assault on one of the most densely populated places on the planet, but with nowhere safe for civilians to go.<\/p>\n \u201cChildren and families in Gaza have practically run out of food, water, electricity, medicine and safe access to hospitals, following days of air strikes and cuts to all supply routes.<\/p>\n \u201cGaza\u2019s sole power plant ran out of fuel Wednesday afternoon, shutting down electricity, water and wastewater treatment. Most residents can no longer get drinking water from service providers or household water through pipelines,<\/p>\n \u201cAt least six water wells, three water pumping stations, one water reservoir, and one desalination plant serving more than 1 million people have been damaged by airstrikes.<\/p>\n \u201cHumanitarians must be able to safely access children and their families with lifesaving services and supplies \u2013 wherever they may be.<\/p>\n \u201cIn every war, the ones who suffer the most are children. This is tragically true today.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n ### ends ###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Arabic\/\u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629 This is a summary of what was said by UNICEF Spokesperson James Elder \u2013 to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva GENEVA, 13 October 2023 \u2013\u00a0\u201cHundreds and hundreds of children have been killed and injured. Every hour in Gaza the number of […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":285,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[2565],"document-source":[2105],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1769,1829,2033,2005],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[],"class_list":["post-289627","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-press-briefing","document-source-united-nations-childrens-fund-unicef","document-subject-armed-conflict","document-subject-casualties","document-subject-children","document-subject-gaza-strip","entity-united-nations-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/289627","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\/285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/289627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289628,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/289627\/revisions\/289628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=289627"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=289627"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=289627"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=289627"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=289627"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=289627"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=289627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}This is a summary of what was said by UNICEF Spokesperson James Elder \u2013 to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva<\/h3>\n