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GAZA: MASSACRE REPORTEDLY KILLS 50 CHILDREN UNDERSCORING URGENT NEED FOR GLOBAL INTERVENTION - SAVE THE CHILDREN

Save the Children's statement in response to attacks that reportedly killed 50 children in northern Gaza.

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GAZA: DEADLY 24 HOURS UNDERSCORES URGENT NEED FOR GLOBAL INTERVENTION WITH YET MORE CHILDREN KILLED - SAVE THE CHILDREN

Civilian attacks by Israeli forces across the Gaza strip have escalated in the past 24 hours, underscoring the urgent need for international intervention.

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Northern Gaza: siege, strikes and starvation

In northern Gaza, an already starving population has been cut off from food, with no confirmed deliveries since 1st of October. They live in fear of attack and fear that if they try to leave, they still won’t find safety or be allowed to return. Here we outline the devastating and horrific situation for children and their families in northern Gaza right now.

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Nowhere safe in Gaza as attacks in the north and hospital ablaze in the south put the lives of children and families at risk

Up to 400,000 Palestinians are trapped across northern Gaza, and a deadly fire is spreading through Gaza's Al-Aqsa hospital sheltering thousands in the so-called “humanitarian zone” following an Israeli airstrike.

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GAZA: AT LEAST 3,100 CHILDREN AGED UNDER FIVE KILLED WITH OTHERS AT RISK AS FAMINE LOOMS

The occupied Palestinian territory is now ranked as the deadliest place in the world for children: about 30% of the 11,300 identified children killed in Gaza were younger than five and Gaza currently has the highest rates of child malnutrition globally.

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A doctor's story of hunger in Gaza

Nearly all 1.1 million children in Gaza are unable to get enough to eat after a year of Israeli bombardment and near-total siege. Children are dying because of malnutrition, dehydration and disease. Doctor Jamal Imam* is a Palestinian nutrition specialist working for Save the Children in Gaza and shares his experience.

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ISRAEL’S SIEGE NOW BLOCKS 83% OF FOOD AID REACHING GAZA, NEW DATA REVEALS

Interagency statement on food aid blocked from reaching Gaza.

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FIVE PALESTINIAN CHILDREN KILLED OR INJURED ON AVERAGE EVERY DAY IN THE WEST BANK SINCE OCTOBER

The number of children killed or injured by Israeli forces and settlers in the West Bank has more than doubled since last October.

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INTERAGENCY STATEMENT CALLING ON UN Member States to take urgent steps to protect people deprived of their liberty across the occupied Palestinian territory and Israel

We, the undersigned organizations, call on all UN Member States to take urgent steps to protect people deprived of their liberty across oPt and Israel

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GAZA: Aid agencies and medical professionals warn of dangers of a mass polio outbreak without urgent action, endangering a generation of children

Aid agencies and medical professionals have joined forces to call urgently for a ceasefire to allow life-saving polio vaccinations to be administered

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Gaza: New Israeli orders force thousands in Deir al-Balah to flee again, and disrupt last aid hub

New displacement orders issued by Israeli authorities have forced another mass movement of families and humanitarian workers.

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STAFF ACCOUNT: The Aid Worker Dilemma - Provide Care and Stay Alive in Gaza

Save the Children staff account from a physician who has dedicated his medical skills to helping children in Gaza.

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Children among more than 100 killed in Gaza in worst school attack in 10 months

Save the Children press release Gaza school airstrike 100 killed children

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Staff account: “The level of human suffering was absolutely mind blowing”: A Paediatric Nurse's account on the Devastating Impact of War on Children in Gaza

Harrowing testimony by a paediatric nurse on her deployment to Gaza to support our medical and humanitarian efforts.

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GAZA: Nearly 300 days into the war, attacks on 'humanitarian zones', never-ending relocation orders and aid worker fatalities cripple aid delivery

Intensified Israeli airstrikes in areas of Gaza have drastically impeded the ability to deliver life-saving supplies

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Statement on attacks in Khan Younis that killed at least 84 people including 24 children

“Nearly 10 months into this horrifying war, the devastation to children’s lives and disregard for legal protections has not ended"

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Physical abuse, infectious disease spreading as conditions for Palestinian children in Israeli military detention deteriorate

Press release on physical abuse, disease and sexual violence spreading in Israeli-run prisons.

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Women self-inducing labour and facing life-threatening complications in pregnancy after nine months of Gaza conflict

An estimated 50,000 babies have been born in Gaza over nine months of conflict, with many women giving birth in traumatic, unhygienic and undignified conditions

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Why are children in Gaza and Sudan at risk of famine?

Hundreds of thousands of children in Gaza and Sudan are at risk of famine. But what does that mean exactly?

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Devastating new figures reveal Gaza’s child hunger catastrophe

Devastating new figures reveal Gaza’s child hunger catastrophe

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Gaza's missing children: Over 20,000 children estimated to be lost, disappeared, detained, buried under the rubble or in mass graves

Gaza's missing children: Over 20,000 children estimated to be lost, disappeared, detained, buried under the rubble or in mass graves

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Formal mechanism to monitor and report on crimes against children in the occupied Palestinian territory and Israel must be established, after perpetrators listed in flagship UN Report – Save the Children

Formal mechanism to monitor and report on crimes against children in the occupied Palestinian territory must be established, after perpetrators listed

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UN ceasefire resolution must be enacted immediately to protect children from further violence and starvation - Save the Children

Statement - Save the Children IMMEDIATE RELEASE UN ceasefire resolution must be enacted immediately to protect children from further violence and s

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At least 66 people including children killed in four days of attacks on “safe zones” in Rafah

Attacks on ‘humanitarian areas’ highlight fallacy of the claim that civilians are safe anywhere in Gaza

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GAZA: New crossing points and ‘floating dock’ are cosmetic changes, as humanitarian access disintegrates in Gaza, warn aid agencies

As Israeli attacks intensify on Rafah, the unpredictable trickle of aid into Gaza has created a mirage of improved access.

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GAZA: Families fleeing Rafah say they are being ‘killed slowly’ as forced to move again

Many Families in Gaza are being forced to flee for the fifth time in seven months while supporting elderly relative and injured children as Israeli fo

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STAFF ACCOUNT: I’ve seen Gaza’s horrors – now is not the time for the world to look away

Testimony by Sacha Myers on her visit to the Gaza Strip where she saw the real horrors of this war and its impact on children.

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“It’s not safe and it’s not clean, but people believe they are leaving something worse behind” - Families flee Rafah for areas with no services

Press release on Thousands of children and their families who are desperately trying to flee Rafah

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Gaza: Critical aid supplies to keep children alive blocked as Israel takes over final land crossing - Save the Children

The closures will have catastrophic consequences for children and families

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Save the Children warns of deadly consequences for children following new relocation orders for families in Rafah

The orders follow a night of intense bombardment in Rafah, killing at least 22 people including eight children

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GAZA: Injured children struggling to recover amid decimated health system after witnessing horrific scenes

Over six months of war in Gaza, the rate of attacks on healthcare in Gaza has been higher than in any other recent conflict globally

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GAZA: Aid workers find ghost town and children living amid rubble in Khan Younis

PR on destruction in Khan Younis and children digging in rubble

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GAZA STAFF ACCOUNT: The Reality of the Humanitarian Catastrophe

Words by Soraya Ali, an award-winning humanitarian and journalist on her visit to Gaza where she captures the war's impact on children.

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‘Nowhere is safe’ for children in the occupied Palestinian territory with at least 24 children killed in Gaza and the West Bank

The escalating violence comes as civilians in both Gaza and the West Bank are increasingly unprotected

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Gaza: Rate of attacks on healthcare higher than in any other conflict globally since 2018

Health workers report an influx of children with wounds and lost limbs, often needing skin grafting and multiple operations

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Education under attack in Gaza, with nearly 90% of school buildings damaged or destroyed

All schools in Gaza have been closed for 625,000 students for 6 months. 87.7% of all school buildings in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed.

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Over 250 Humanitarian and Human Rights Organisations join call to end Arms Transfers to Israel, Palestinian Armed Groups

An open call to all UN member states to stop fuelling the crisis in Gaza and avert further humanitarian catastrophe and loss of civilian life.

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Bisan: 6 months of war in Gaza

A month-by-month account of Bisan's experiences of 6 months of war in Gaza.

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Over 2% of Gaza’s child population killed or injured in six months of war

Nearly 26,000 children – or just over two percent of Gaza’s child population – have been killed or injured in Gaza in six months of a war which has decimated the health system and severed access to education

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Time is running out for international action to protect civilians and prevent atrocity crimes in Rafah, as UN Security Council resolution is ignored

Time is running out for action to protect civilians and prevent atrocity crimes in Rafah

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