The United Nations Children’s Organization (UNICEF) estimates that at least 17,000 children in the Gaza Strip have been separated from their families due to Israel’s ongoing attack on the Palestinian Gaza Strip for nearly four months.
Apart from this, the conflict is affecting the mental health of the children of the valley. This information was given by UNICEF on Friday.
Israel has been indiscriminately attacking Gaza since October 7. Children of the valley have suffered the most. Every child separated from their parents in Gaza has a heartbreaking story, Yosef spokesman Jonathan Crix said on Friday.
Gaza has been devastated by the nearly four-month-long offensive. Israel has blockaded the valley. There is a severe shortage of food, water, fuel and medical equipment. Such conditions are also affecting the mental health of children in Gaza.
More than 500,000 children in Gaza were in need of mental health care before the conflict began, according to the United Nations. In the current situation, comments Jonathan Crix, now all the children in Gaza need this help. This number is more than 10 lakh. Children have no involvement in the ongoing conflict. Yet no child can live in the kind of misery they are in.
Incidentally, on October 7, 1 thousand 139 people were killed in the attack of the Palestinian independence organization Hamas in Israel. About 240 people were taken hostage from there. Israel’s indiscriminate attack on Gaza has been going on since that day. At least 27,238 Palestinians have been killed so far. 66 thousand 452 people were injured.
