GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children have joined a distance learning program in the war-torn Gaza Strip since January, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) reports. “Nearly 260,000 children have enrolled in UNRWA’s distance learning program since January,” the UN agency said in a statement. Gaza’s...
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...
Israel has killed and wounded Palestinians, mostly children, who were playing football in the Al-Shati refugee camp in northern Gaza. So far, the bodies of seven children have been recovered from the site. Israel has also committed five massacres in Gaza over the past 24 hours, destroying dozens of homes in the Jabalia camp. On […]
HAMILTON, Canada (AA) – Around 590,000 children in Gaza will receive polio vaccinations in the second phase which begins October 14, the UNICEF has announced. “The second round of polio vaccination in the Gaza Strip is confirmed. It will start on 14th October to vaccinate around 590K children under 10,” UNICEF Executive Direc...
Israel bombed a group of Palestinian children during an attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. The children were playing football on Salah al-Din Street when they were targeted. At least one child was reportedly killed and others injured. Israel has continued its war on Gaza since last October, despite a U.N. Security […]
Lawmaker Rashida Tlaib has brought attention to the tragic loss of life in Palestine by entering a list of names of children killed by Israeli forces into the Congressional record. She describes Israel’s ongoing war as “one of the most documented horrific crimes against humanity.” The list includes the names of more than 11,000 chi...
More than 15,000 teddy bears were displayed in the capital of Qatar, Doha, on Tuesday in memory of Palestinian children killed in Israel’s war on Gaza. In the installation, titled “Echo of Lost Innocence,” black T-shirts on each teddy bear read, “I am not just a number. I am a human being. I have an […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has announced that its teams vaccinated more than 160,000 children the first day of the second phase of a polio vaccination campaign in southern Gaza. “Thousands of families went to health facilities to receive vaccines from UNRWA medical teams,” the UN agency said on X. [&he...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Dozens of Palestinian children in Gaza City in the northern part of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday rallied to protest the scarcity of food and water under the Israeli siege. The children marched in the streets of Gaza City holding banners reading “bread becomes my dream” and “we want food”. ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Palestine Red Crescent Society has released a new audio recording of six-year-old Hind Rajab documenting the moments of horror she experienced while trapped alone, surrounded by Israeli tanks and the bodies of her relatives who were killed by Israeli soldiers. “They are dead. The tank is next to me. It is […]
