UNICEF report on the deadly cycle for children in the Gaza Strip

According to Al-Mayadeen TV, UNICEF announced that after three months of war in the Gaza Strip, malnutrition and infectious diseases have created a deadly cycle for the residents of the Gaza Strip and the lives of more than a million people, including hundreds of thousands of children at risk. According to UNICEF, a total of 90% of the young Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip live in harsh war conditions and have no access to food. According to the report, children in the Gaza Strip face the risk of death as their access to adequate nutrition decreases as cases increase among them, while attacks from the Zionist regime intensify into a fourteenth week. Earlier, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) said in a report that the risk of famine in the Gaza Strip is increasing due to the continuation of the war and severe restrictions on access to humanitarian aid. Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip are facing a nightmare that is getting worse every day, according to Catherine Russell, executive director of UNICEF. Displaced children and their families are unable to maintain the level of hygiene needed to prevent various infectious diseases in the Gaza Strip due to alarming shortages of clean water and other medical supplies, UNICEF said. According to Business Insider, citing Palestinian authorities, 8,000 children have been martyred in the Zionist regime's attacks on the Gaza Strip over the past three months, which includes about a third of the war's more than 22,000 victims. This number is something of a record, as the war in the Gaza Strip is killing children faster than any other armed conflict in decades. Comparing United Nations statistics on child martyrs in the Gaza Strip with children killed in armed conflicts around the world reveals the depth of the tragedy. A UN report entitled Armed Conflict and Children states that 2,985 children died in 24 countries in 2022, 2,515 children in 2021, and 2,674 children in 2020. The brutal killing of Palestinian children is not an issue that has escaped the attention of global players and international organizations such as the United Nations, but their response, which is sometimes accompanied by politicization, has come under increasing criticism. The killing of children by Zionists has intensified since the outbreak of war in the Gaza Strip, while the actions of the Zionist regime are contrary to international laws, in particular Article 16 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which prohibits cruelty to children. Effective international organizations and human rights defenders are expected to stick to their core mission and not sacrifice Palestinian children for the sake of their interests and political games.