MONITORING (SW) – The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned that a Palestinian child is either killed or injured every 10 minutes in Gaza, according to data from the territory’s Ministry of Health.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) highlights the damning statistic on child casualties of Israel’s war on Gaza in its latest flash assessment of the situation in Gaza.
OCHA also points out that between April 1 and Friday, 15 percent of humanitarian aid missions to northern Gaza and those to parts of southern Gaza that “require coordination have been denied or impeded by Israeli authorities”.
Israeli bombardment from the air, land, and sea continues to be reported across much of the Gaza Strip, resulting in further civilian casualties, displacement, and destruction of houses and other civilian infrastructure, the report added.
In a briefing to the Security Council on 18 April, Secretary-General António Guterres stated: “Two million Palestinians have endured death, destruction, and the denial of lifesaving humanitarian aid; they are now staring down on starvation. An Israeli operation in Rafah would compound this humanitarian catastrophe… To avert imminent famine, and further preventable deaths from disease, we need a quantum leap in humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza… Delivering aid at scale requires Israel’s full and active facilitation of humanitarian operations.”
Between the afternoon of 17 April and 15:00 on 19 April, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Gaza, 113 Palestinians were killed and 169 Palestinians were injured, including 71 killed and 106 injured in the last 24 hours. Between 7 October 2023 and 15:00 on 19 April 2024, at least 34,012 Palestinians were killed in Gaza and 76,833 Palestinians were injured, according to MoH in Gaza, according to UN report.
