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...
GENEVA – AFP UNICEF spokesperson James Elder, who spent nearly two weeks in Gaza, said at a press briefing in Geneva that he was “furious that those with power shrug at the humanitarian nightmares unleashed on a million children” in Gaza. He spoke of the fate of children hospitalised after having undergone amputations and who...
GENEVA (AA) – A hospital in the southern Gaza Strip was targeted twice by Israeli forces in the last 48 hours, UNICEF announced on Tuesday. “Over the past 48 hours, the largest remaining fully functional hospital in Gaza has been shelled twice. That hospital is Al Nasser,” spokesman James Elder said in a UN press […]
GENEVA (AA) – UNICEF has warned that the so-called “safe zones” declared by Israel in Gaza pose risks to be “zones of disease.” “Without water, without sanitation, without shelter, the so-called ‘safe zones’ risk becoming zones of disease,” UNICEF spokesperson James Elder said in a UN press brief...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP The United Nations said on Tuesday that it was impossible to create safe zones for civilians in Gaza. “The so-called safe zones… are not scientific, they are not rational, they are not possible,” said James Elder, spokesman for the UN children’s agency, UNICEF. On Monday, a UN official w...
LONDON (AA) – The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has expressed deep concern over the situation in the southern region of Gaza, with its spokesperson saying that the Israeli attacks are every bit as vicious as those endured in the north. “Despite what has been assured, attacks in the south of Gaza ar...
Khan Yunis, Palestinian Territories – AFP In the rubble of a house destroyed by bombs in the southern Gazan city of Rafah, a man screamed: “Where are my children?” Similar scenes played out across the devastated Gaza Strip on Friday, as residents fled their homes and rushed their dead and wounded to hospitals after Israel [&h...
GENEVA (AA) – The United Nations Children’s Fund or UNICEF has raised alarm over the rising number of child deaths in the Gaza Strip since October 7. “Gaza has become a graveyard of children,” UNICEF spokesperson James Elder told a UN press briefing in Geneva. Elder reiterated UNICEF’s call for an immediate cease-fire a...
