469 Gaza children killed, over 370,000 need ‘psychosocial aid’ – UNICEF — RT News
At least 469 children have been killed and over 3,000 injured in Gaza since the start of the Israeli offensive, a senior UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) official said, adding that more than 370,000 Palestinian kids require “immediate psychosocial first aid.”
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Nine children have died in Gaza violence since Wednesday, the chief of UNICEF’s Gaza field office, Pernilla Ironside, said at a press conference on Thursday in New York.
Palestinian
children, who were displaced from their homes by fighting between Hamas
and Israel, look through a window into a classroom where other
displaced children were celebrating some of their birthdays at a UN
school in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip (AFP Photo / Roberto
Schmidt)
