UNICEF / GAZA CHILDREN
STORY: UNICEF / GAZA CHILDREN
TRT: 02:46
SOURCE: UNICEF
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LANGUAGE: NATS
DATELINE: RECENT, GAZA CITY, NORTHERN GAZA STRIP, STATE OF PALESTINE
05 APRIL 2024, GAZA STRIP, STATE OF PALESTINE
1. Various shots, children walking through the rubble in a destroyed neighbourhood
2. Various shots, destruction of buildings and neighbourhoods
3. Various shots, destruction and the rubble of houses and neighbourhoods
4. Various shots, people distributing free food to children and their families
5. Various shots, children with their families collect water
03APRIL 2024, GAZA STRIP, STATE OF PALESTINE
6. Various shots, mother crying over her dead children in the vicinity of Al-Shifa hospital
7. Various shots, outside destruction of Al-Shifa medical complex
8. Various shots, people are searching for their missing relatives among the rubble
The escalation of hostilities in the Gaza Strip is having a catastrophic impact on children and families. Children are dying at an alarming rate – more than 13,000 are reported to have been killed in this current conflict and thousands more have been injured.
Around 1.7 million people in the Gaza Strip are estimated to have been internally displaced – half of them children. They do not have enough access to water, food, fuel and medicine. Their homes have been destroyed; their families torn apart.
In the Gaza Strip, around 57 percent of water infrastructure has been destroyed or partially damaged. The current water production capacity is estimated at below five per cent of the usual output, and progressively decreases every day.
UNICEF distributed 19,800 collapsible jerrycans; 15,800 buckets; 4,000 diapers; 990 hygiene kits; and 30 bladders for safe water storage benefitting 35,600 people including children, women and adolescent girls in the Gaza Strip.