{"id":18030,"date":"2024-02-03T06:39:35","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T06:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=18030"},"modified":"2024-02-03T06:39:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T06:39:35","slug":"un-estimates-17000-gaza-children-left-unaccompanied-amid-israels-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/02\/un-estimates-17000-gaza-children-left-unaccompanied-amid-israels-war\/","title":{"rendered":"UN estimates 17,000 Gaza children left unaccompanied amid Israel\u2019s war"},"content":{"rendered":"

MONITORING (SW) – At least 17,000 children in the Gaza Strip have been left unaccompanied or separated from their families nearly four months into Israel\u2019s assault on the enclave, the United Nations children\u2019s agency estimates.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nearly all children in the strip also require mental health support, UNICEF said on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cEach [child] has a heartbreaking story of loss and grief,\u201d said Jonathan Crickx, UNICEF\u2019s chief of communication for the occupied Palestinian territories.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis [17,000] figure corresponds to 1 percent of the overall displaced population \u2013 1.7 million people,\u201d he told a media briefing via video-link from Jerusalem, saying the number was an estimation as it is near impossible to verify information under current conditions.<\/p>\n

Each one \u201cis a child who is coming to terms with a horrible new reality\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n

Crickx said that tracing who the unaccompanied children were was proving \u201cextremely difficult\u201d, as they were sometimes brought to a hospital wounded or in shock, and \u201cthey simply can\u2019t even say their names\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said that during conflicts, it was common for extended families to take care of children who lost their parents.<\/p>\n

However, in Gaza, \u201cdue to the sheer lack of food, water or shelter, extended families are themselves distressed and face challenges to immediately take care of another child as they themselves are struggling to cater for their own children and family\u201d, said Crickx.<\/p>\n

Broadly, UNICEF terms separated children as those who are without their parents, while unaccompanied children are those who are separated and also without other relatives.<\/p>\n

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