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UNICEF calls for all Gaza aid crossings to open, warns child deaths could still grow
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe United Nations children’s charity UNICEF calls for all crossings for food aid into Gaza to be opened, saying children in the territory are especially vulnerable because they have gone without proper food for long periods.
“The situation is critical. We risk seeing a massive spike in child death, not only neonatal, but also infants, given their immune systems are more compromised than ever before,” says UNICEF spokesperson Ricardo Pires.
Children’s immunity is low because “they haven’t been eating properly and recently at all for way too long,” he adds.
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