DaysofPal – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) sounded the alarm on Monday over the devastating toll Israel’s genocide on Gaza is taking on children, revealing that an average of 28 children are being killed every single day, whether by bombs, hunger, or untreated illness, in a crisis that has now dragged on for more than 660 days.
“In Gaza, an average of 28 children are killed every day, the equivalent of an entire classroom,” UNICEF said in a statement, underscoring the lethal combination of airstrikes, malnutrition, and the total collapse of services in the besieged enclave. The agency emphasized that Gaza’s children urgently require food, clean water, medicine, and, most importantly, a ceasefire.
The warning comes as Gaza continues to suffer under what multiple UN agencies have described as a man-made humanitarian catastrophe, driven by relentless bombing and a blockade that has gutted access to basic life-saving aid.
Volker Türk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, echoed UNICEF’s message, warning that Gaza’s starvation crisis has reached levels that are “heartbreaking and unbearable.”
In his remarks on Monday, Türk described the ongoing denial of food to civilians as not only morally intolerable but also a potential war crime and a crime against humanity.
“Images of starving people in Gaza are an insult to all of humanity,” he said. “Saving lives must be everyone’s priority.”
Türk called on Israel to lift the restrictions on aid entering the Gaza Strip, describing the current level of access as “far less than what is needed.” He urged that humanitarian supplies be allowed in “immediately, without hindrance,” warning that the ongoing obstruction was exacerbating suffering and costing lives.
Under Israel’s ongoing siege, food, water, and medicine have become dangerously scarce, especially in northern and central Gaza, where famine-like conditions have been reported.
Aid convoys are tightly controlled or blocked altogether, and distribution networks have collapsed under repeated attacks.
While Türk reiterated his call for the release of Israeli captives held in Gaza, he made no mention of the thousands of Palestinian prisoners detained in Israeli jails, many of whom are subjected to prolonged detention without charge and systematic torture, a growing concern among international rights organizations.
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