{"id":16524,"date":"2023-12-02T05:17:55","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T05:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=16524"},"modified":"2023-12-02T07:20:25","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T07:20:25","slug":"gaza-most-dangerous-place-in-the-world-to-be-a-child-unicef-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2023\/12\/gaza-most-dangerous-place-in-the-world-to-be-a-child-unicef-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza \u201cmost dangerous place in the world to be a child\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GAZA (SW) &#8211; Catherine Russell, executive director of the United Nations Children\u2019s Fund, has warned that Gaza Strip is once again \u201cthe most dangerous place in the world to be a child\u201d following the resumption of the war.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Russell said that hundreds more children will be died and injured each day if violence returns at the scale and intensity seen before the seven-day pause in fighting that ended on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt does not have to be this way \u2013 for seven days, there was a glimmer of hope for children amidst this horrific nightmare,\u201d Russell said in a statement on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The statement adds that more than 30 children held hostage in Gaza were safely released and reunited with their families. \u201cThe humanitarian pause enabled an increase in the delivery of lifesaving supplies into and across Gaza.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">All children in the State of Palestine and Israel deserve peace and hope for a better future.<\/p>\n<p>We call on all parties to ensure that children are protected and assisted.<\/p>\n<p>My statement on the resumption of fighting in Gaza \u25b6\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jcbyOAEZVS\">https:\/\/t.co\/jcbyOAEZVS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Catherine Russell (@unicefchief) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unicefchief\/status\/1730737992011022770?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cChildren need a lasting humanitarian ceasefire,\u201d Russell added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe call on all parties to ensure that children are protected and assisted, in accordance with their obligations under international humanitarian law. All children in the State of Palestine and Israel deserve peace and hope for a better future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, before the pause, more than 5,300 Palestinian children were reportedly killed in 48 days of relentless bombing \u2013 \u201ca figure that does not include many children still missing and presumed to be buried under rubble.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It should be mentioned that if water, food, medical supplies, blankets and warm clothes are not provided to the needy, \u201ca humanitarian disaster will occur.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GAZA (SW) &#8211; Catherine Russell, executive director of the United Nations Children\u2019s Fund, has warned that Gaza is once again \u201cthe most dangerous place in the world to be a child\u201d following the resumption of the war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":16529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,979,194,200,5,4,899,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-humanitarian-crisis","category-world","category-democracy-human-rights","category-politics_","category-news_","category-trending","category-headline"],"views":68,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16524"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16535,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16524\/revisions\/16535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}