The head of the UN’s children agency (UNICEF) said the “true cost” of the latest escalation in Gaza will be measured in children’s lives.

UNICEF executive director Catherine Russell, addressing the UN’s security council on Monday, said:

More than 420 children are being killed or injured in Gaza each day – a number which should shake each of us to our core.

The number is “quickly adding up” with “rampant grave violations” being committed against children, she said. 

More than 3,400 Palestinian children have been killed in Gaza and more than 6,300 children injured since 7 October, according to the territory’s health ministry.

In the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, at least 37 children have reportedly been killed, she said.

Source: The Guardian 

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