The deputy executive director of the UN children’s fund, has warned that children in the besieged Gaza Strip are facing dire hunger and disease.
Ted Chaiban, the deputy executive director of Unicef described the Gaza Strip as the most dangerous place in the world to be a child.
"We have said this is a war on children. But these truths do not seem to be getting through," he said in statement.
“The little food that is available doesn’t meet children’s unique nutritional needs. As a result, thousands of children are malnourished and sick,” he said in a statement.
“If this decline persists, we could see deaths due to indiscriminate conflict compounded by deaths due to disease and hunger,” he said.
“We need a major breakthrough.”
"The sheer mass of civilians on the border is hard to fathom and the conditions they live in are inhuman," he added.
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