Hope amid ruins: Gaza sleeps without fear
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HAMILTON, Canada (AA) – An official from the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has termed the death of seven newborns and infants from cold in Gaza as “tragic and unacceptable.” “It’s tragic and unacceptable that since 23 December, 7 newborns and infants have reportedly died from the cold and a lack of adequate shelter ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – At least 3,104 Native American children died in boarding schools in the US between 1828 and 1970 — a figure three times higher than the government’s estimate, The Washington Post reported Sunday. The Post described the deaths in the schools, which were established to forcibly assimilate Indigenous children int...
Nearly 10 million children across 12 Republican-led states may face hunger next summer as $1.14 billion in federal funding to alleviate hunger remains unclaimed. SUN Bucks program provides $120 per child during the summer to buy food. According to the Food Research & Action Center (FRAC), Tennessee, Texas, and Florida are poised to declin...
Six years after the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy, 1,360 children remain separated from their parents, according to a report by Human Rights Watch. The 135-page report highlights the lasting trauma inflicted by the policy, describing it as “calculated cruelty”. Children were forcibly taken from their parents, many left in angu...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian child died Saturday because of a lack of oxygen and medical supplies in the northern Gaza Strip amid the siege by Israel, according to the Al-Awda Hospital. “A 10-year-old Palestinian child has died after his health condition deteriorated due to the shortage of oxygen and medical supplies a...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Australia’s Senate has passed laws to ban children and teenagers from using social media — first such decision by any government across the globe. The laws, passed on the last day of the ongoing Senate session, are set to come into force at the end of next year, after which anyone age […]
TEXAS, United States (AA) – The Texas Board of Education has approved a new curriculum that allows public schools in the state to give Bible-based lessons, according to media reports. The curriculum gives schools the green light to teach about the Bible to students from Kindergarten through Grade 5. The syllabus includes Biblical and Chr...
ANKARA (AA) – The humanitarian crisis in Sudan is worsening, leaving millions in urgent need of aid, the UN has said, warning that 3.7 million children are at risk of acute malnutrition. “There are 3.7 million children under five projected to suffer from severe acute malnutrition this year alone who are in urgent need of […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – United Nations agencies have postponed a polio vaccination campaign for Palestinian children in the northern Gaza Strip because of a deadly Israeli onslaught. The World Health Organization (WHO) said Gaza’s Health Ministry and UN partners “were compelled to postpone the polio vaccination campaign in northern Gaza” d...
GENEVA (AA) – The situation for children in Gaza is “worsening” with each passing day, with growing food, water, and medicine shortages compounded by ongoing Israeli attacks and severe restrictions on humanitarian aid, a UNICEF spokesperson has warned. James Elder told a UN press briefing in Geneva that many Gaza children have been...
