Gaza, January 30, 2025 – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced on Thursday that there are currently 19,000 unaccompanied Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip, highlighting an urgent need to address their basic necessities, including food, water, medical care, and shelter.
“UNICEF is at the center of efforts to aid Palestinian children in Gaza, especially those unaccompanied or separated from their families, which it estimates to be around 19,000,” stated Tess Ingram, the organization’s communications manager, as reported by various media outlets.
“We’re hopeful now that with the ceasefire, many of those families can be reunited, but of course, our other fear is that as people move… that children become separated in that movement again,” Ingram added.
UNICEF’s priorities with the children are “ensuring they have their basic needs, such as food, water, medicine and shelter,” she continued.
“There is also help needed for children who have been deprived of other essential services – immunization, malnutrition treatments, mental health psychosocial support,” the UN official emphasized.
