Occupied Palestinian territory

Children living in North Gaza and Gaza governates have been almost completely cut off from supplies of food, water, and medicine since 6 October 2024 when Israeli forces declared the area to be a closed military zone.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Interagency statement on food aid blocked from reaching Gaza.

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

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

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

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

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

Save the Children press release Gaza school airstrike 100 killed children

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

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

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

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

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

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

Devastating new figures reveal Gaza’s child hunger catastrophe

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The closures will have catastrophic consequences for children and families

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

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

PR on destruction in Khan Younis and children digging in rubble

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Malnourished children in Gaza are not getting the food and medical care they need to survive.

Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah met on Wednesday with the CEO of Save the Children International Inger Ashing

The more than one million children trapped in Gaza have been granted the hope of a brief respite today.

The decision by Israeli authorities to reject United Nations Relief and UNRWA food convoys into northern Gaza will accelerate the risk of famine.

The more than one million children trapped in Gaza will continue to be exposed to bombs, guns and starvation

Save the Children press release on hunger in Gaza showing children and families facing imminent famine

Five months into this war, conditions to provide food to children in Gaza are getting worse. This Ramadan in Gaza, things are the wrong way round.

Five months of violence, displacement, starvation and disease on top of nearly 17 years of a blockade have caused relentless mental harm to children in Gaza

Save the Children press release on alternative aid delivery including ports and airdrops

Joint statement pushing UN member states to resume UNRWA funding

Save the Children statement on people killed in Gaza queuing for food aid

The Palestinian Commission has said that conditions for children held in prisons have significantly deteriorated

Press release on hunger in Gaza as reports emerge of children dying from lack of food

A crisis. A horror. A tragedy. All words we’ve heard many times over to describe the situation in Gaza. All woefully insufficient.

Families in Gaza are forced to forage for scraps of food left by rats and eating leaves out of desperation to survive with nearly five months of war.

Statement on UNSC vote on ceasefire in Gaza, with quote by CD Jason Lee

The war in Gaza now stands among the deadliest and most destructive in recent history and has led to a litany of grave violations against children

We, the signatories of this statement, call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and a massive increase in humanitarian assistance to avoid famine

Majority of Gaza’s children now trapped in land area less than a fifth of enclave’s total land mass as Israeli military expands into Rafah

Imagine it this way...you haven't even been born yet. Your mother is so stressed she goes into premature labour.

Save the Children joins about 20 other NGOs to call for an immediate reversal of UNRWA funding suspensions.

We, the undersigned organisations, call on all States to immediately halt the transfer of weapons, parts, ammunition to Israel and Palestinian groups

Children in Gaza are not learning. They are just forced to survive one of the most destructive bombing campaigns in history.

Press release on number of children killed in 100 days of war in Gaza, and grave violations against children.

Denying children in Gaza access to food will have lifelong consequences for Palestinian children with rising numbers at risk of malnutrition

More than 10 children per day, on average, have lost one or both of their legs in Gaza since conflict erupted three months ago, said Save the Children

Fourteen people, the majority of them children under 10 years old, were reportedly killed by Israeli airstrikes near Al-Mawasi this morning.

Statement in response to the UN Security Council’s vote to pass a resolution on aid delivery in Gaza

About 893,000 children are likely to now be internally displaced in Gaza, meaning an average of nearly 12,000 children a day have been forced to flee

The Government of Israel’s military actions are pushing children and families in Gaza towards famine, Save the Children warned today

The fifth and longest communication blackout across the Gaza Strip since 7 October is limiting aid to more than 1 million people in need.

SAVE THE CHILDREN CONDEMNS KILLING OF STAFF MEMBER AND FAMILY IN ISRAELI AIRSTRIKE IN GAZA.

Save the Children press release on how deaths by starvation and disease may top deaths by bombs in Gaza two months into the crisis

Joint aid agencies statement on failure of the UN Security Council to authorise resolution demanding humanitarian ceasefire

STAFF ACCOUNT: “There is tension and fear in the air, that we are waiting, waiting for something worse to happen.

"WE ARE FAILING THE CHILDREN OF GAZA”: CONDITIONS TO PROVIDE HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TO CHILDREN IN GAZA ARE NOT MET

Water shortages linked to climate change exacerbating the risks to children in Gaza conflict – Save the Children

Save the Children’s Country Director of the occupied Palestinian territory shares his experience of visiting Gaza.

‘Nowhere to go’ - Over one million children in Gaza at risk of being killed

Save the Children says failure to extend pause is a death sentence for children as bombardment of Gaza resumes

An eight-year-old boy shot dead in the street is one of the most recent casualties of violence in the occupied West Bank.

GAZA: Repeated diplomatic failures continue to cost thousands of children’s lives says Save the Children ahead of UN Security Council meeting

The agreed extension of the four-day pause in fighting by two days is welcome news but children in Gaza won’t be safe without a lasting ceasefire.

Save the Children has welcomed the release of some Israeli children and some Palestinian children.

GAZA: Save the Children welcomes temporary truce and hostage release but warns children won’t be safe without a ceasefire

About 15,000 babies are expected to be born in Gaza between 7 October and the end of 2023

Aid agencies operating in Gaza issued an urgent warning on Monday that fuel reserves critical for aid operations have run out.

Attacks on hospitals and schools in Gaza where the UN says nearly one million civilians are sheltering must stop, Save the Children said on Friday fol

A month of relentless bombardment of densely populated civilian areas has exacerbated the already-critical mental health crisis for Gaza’s children