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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 434

UNICEF United Nations Children's Fund

Soldiers killed in the northern Gaza Strip on October 29, 2024: Top (L-R) Cpt. Yehonatan Joni Keren, Staff Sgt. Nisim Meytal; bottom (L-R): Staff Sgt. Aviv Gilboa, Staff Sgt. Naor Haimov. (Courtesy)
October 29, 2024, 5:39 pm
Four soldiers killed, officer seriously wounded in northern Gaza fighting
IDF says it is probing reports 93 killed in strike on Beit Lahiya apartment; after passing laws limiting UNRWA activities, Israel says it’ll work with other agencies to ensure aid
By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman and Agencies
Illustrative: A woman walks past an informational mural against gender-based violence, on a street in Nairobi, Kenya, March 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
October 10, 2024, 8:23 am
One in 8 girls and women raped or sexually assaulted before age 18, UNICEF says
UN children’s agency report, based on 12 years of stats from 120 countries, also finds 1 in 11 men and boys affected, calls it ‘a stain on our moral conscience’
By Reuters
Palestinian children salvage items from garbage in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, September 30, 2024. (Eyad Baba / AFP)
October 1, 2024, 12:08 am
UNICEF says war has deprived Gazan children of education, food
Spokesman describes ‘extreme impact,’ recalls child telling him of uncle’s horrific death, ‘saying things that a 10-year-old should not tell you’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Displaced kids sort through trash at a street in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Thursday, August 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
September 7, 2024, 9:39 pm
Gaza approaches second year without schooling, with heavy cost for kids’ futures
Aid groups attempt ‘back to learning’ programs, but struggle to import school supplies as food and medicine take precedence
By AP and ToI Staff
Polio vaccines arrive at the Kerem Shalom border crossing with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel, August 25, 2024. (COGAT)
August 25, 2024, 11:38 pm
Israel coordinates delivery of 25,100 polio vaccine vials to Gaza amid fears of outbreak
Vials enough to inoculate 1.25 million people, over half of Strip’s population, as aid groups call for weeklong truce for vaccination drive following 1st case of polio in 25 years
By ToI Staff and AP
A Palestinian child receives a pentavalent shot, which protects against five diseases, in Gaza's southernmost city of Rafah, January 2, 2024, after the vaccines were delivered to the Strip in an international aid shipment. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
August 22, 2024, 4:30 pm
UN agencies wage uphill battle for vaccination after Gaza baby found to have polio
Supplies arrive in Tel Aviv as 2,700 aid workers gear up to immunize 640,000 children; COGAT vows ‘joint effort’ with international community
By AFP and ToI Staff
Palestinians walk on the rubble of destroyed buildings, between two pools of stagnant water in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on July 19, 2024 (Bashar Taleb / AFP)
August 16, 2024, 6:43 pm
Gaza records first polio case in 25 years as UN seeks ceasefire to vaccinate kids
Infant from Strip confirmed to have disease hours after World Health Organization and UNICEF announce plans to inoculate 640,000 children during two week-long truces
By AFP
Workers pour concrete in a Hamas tunnel in northern Gaza in an undated photo released by the military on March 5, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
March 5, 2024, 4:36 pm
Israel destroys largest Hamas tunnel found yet, nabs gunmen hiding among civilians
WHO says one in six children under age 2 in north Gaza are acutely malnourished; UNICEF warns diseases also now spreading among young kids in Palestinian coastal enclave
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
Troops operating in the Gaza Strip in an undated photo released February 20, 2024 (Israel Defense Forces)
February 20, 2024, 1:50 pm
Army pushes back on reported fears Sinwar fled to Sinai, as battles return to Gaza City
Soldier dies of wounds, bringing death toll to 236, as fighting persists in Khan Younis and Hamas leader Haniyeh arrives in Cairo for moribund hostage talks
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Displaced Palestinians walk in a puddle in rainy weather to get food rations at a makeshift tent camp in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on February 2, 2024, amid ongoing battles between Israel and Hamas. (Mohammed ABED / AFP)
February 2, 2024, 8:44 pm
UN: Gaza’s Rafah is ‘pressure cooker of despair’; 17,000 kids separated from families
Agencies say civilian costs continue to grow; more than half of Gaza’s 2.3 million people are sheltering in and around Rafah, the final major area where IDF has yet to tackle Hamas
By Reuters and ToI Staff
The scene of a rocket impact in the southern city of Netivot, following a barrage fired from the Gaza Strip, January 16, 2024. (Fire and Rescue Services)
January 16, 2024, 2:23 pm
50 rockets fired at south Israel, largest barrage in weeks; 2 more soldiers killed
IDF ground offensive toll rises to 190; military carries out targeted operations in northern Gaza, locates more than 100 rocket launchers, battles Hamas gunmen
By Emanuel Fabian
UNICEF executive director Catherine Russell (right) visits Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza on November 14, 2023. (UNICEF/ UNI470988)
November 15, 2023, 7:18 pm
‘Stop the horror,’ says UN children’s agency chief after visit to Gaza
Foreign Ministry accuses UNICEF head of using ‘car accident’ as excuse to cancel subsequent trip to Israel for meeting with hostages’ families; her office says she will return to region
By ToI Staff and AFP
A Syrian child walks in a stream of open sewage in the Salaheddine camp in northwestern Syria on September 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
November 5, 2022, 5:38 pm
Conflict and economic crisis fuel cholera surge across Middle East
Lebanon alone reports over 2,000 cases, 18 deaths since last month, as bacterial infection sweeps region
By Kareem Chehayeb
Displaced Ukrainians on a Poland-bound train bid farewell in Lviv, western Ukraine, March 22, 2022 (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
March 24, 2022, 12:12 pm
Over half of Ukraine’s children displaced after month of war, UN says
More than 1.8 million children have fled Ukraine as refugees, while another 2.5 million are displaced inside the war-ravaged country, according to UNICEF
By Nina Larson
Ukrainian evacuees stand outside the train station in Przemysl, near the Polish-Ukrainian border, on March 22, 2022, following Russia's military invasion of Ukraine. (Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP)
March 22, 2022, 5:25 pm
UN says more than 3.5 million refugees have fled Ukraine since Russia invaded
Another 6.5 million Ukrainians internally displaced; UN migration chief: ‘Scale of human suffering and forced displacement due to war far exceeds any worst-case scenario planning’
By Robin MILLARD
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