Gaza children

On World Day Against Child Labor: Gaza’s crushed childhood turns into a struggle for survival

Monday-16-June-2025

In Gaza, footballs, pencils, and festive clothes no longer symbolize childhood. Instead, pebbles, carts, and manual grinding machines have become tools of daily survival, gripped by frail children with hollow faces and cracked hands, spending their early years in forced labor in search of a scrap of bread.

Gaza children undergoing surgery without anesthesia amid Israeli siege

Friday-13-June-2025

Children in the Gaza Strip are being forced to undergo surgeries without anesthesia due to severe shortages of medical supplies, a result of the ongoing blockade imposed by the Israeli occupation government.

UNRWA: Over 2,700 kids in Gaza suffer from acute malnutrition

Wednesday-11-June-2025

UNRWA said that more than 2,700 Palestinian children under age 5 were diagnosed with severe malnutrition in last May in the Gaza Strip.

70,000 Gaza children facing severe levels of malnutrition

Thursday-5-June-2025

The World Food Program has confirmed that more than 70,000 children in Gaza are facing severe levels of malnutrition, warning that further escalation in the conflict in Gaza could lead to an almost complete halt in relief operations.

UNICEF: Collapse of healthcare sector threatens children’s lives in Gaza

Thursday-5-June-2025

The spokesperson for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Palestine, Kazem Abu Khalaf, confirmed that the collapse of the healthcare sector poses a serious threat to the lives of children in the Gaza Strip.

On the anniversary of their birthday, the mother of two martyrs lights candles over their grave

Tuesday-3-June-2025

With a small cake and hands trembling with longing, Nour Al-Nabiha, known as “The Mother of Martyrs,” made her way to the Martyrs’ Cemetery east of Gaza City to mark the birthday of her two children, Rasha and Ahmad, who were killed two years ago in an Israeli airstrike that turned their dreams to ashes.

UNRWA: Over 50,000 children killed or injured in Gaza since start of Israeli genocide

Monday-2-June-2025

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has reported that more than 50,000 children have been killed or injured in the Gaza Strip since October 2023, marking one of the deadliest tolls on children in modern conflict history.

Ward: A Palestinian child walked through fire, searching for an embrace in the ashes

Friday-30-May-2025

Amidst the ashes, blood, and rubble, five-year-old Ward Al-Sheikh Khalil emerged barefoot, dazed, groping through the devastation in search of a mother’s embrace that had been burned away, and siblings who had turned to ash.

UNICEF: Gaza genocide leaves 50,000 children dead or wounded since October, 2023

Wednesday-28-May-2025

More than 50,000 Palestinian children have been killed or injured in Gaza since October 7, 2023, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), which described the situation as part of an ongoing genocide committed by the Israeli occupation army.

Yaqeen Hammad — the girl who documented life and was martyred live on air

Sunday-25-May-2025

In a displacement camp where the smell of gunpowder never fades and sirens never stop wailing, young Yaqeen Khidr Hammad was building a world of hope through the lens of her phone.