The spokesman for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Kazem Abu Khalaf, announced that 2,500 children in the Gaza Strip need urgent medical evacuation.

Khalaf added in a press statement on Thursday that “the situation in the northern Gaza Strip is extremely difficult and tragic and is getting worse,” noting that 30% of children in the Gaza Strip suffer from acute malnutrition.

Abu Khalaf revealed that 95% of the schools housing displaced people in the Gaza Strip were completely destroyed.

On October 26, UNICEF said that the rate of evacuating children from the Gaza Strip for medical reasons decreased from 296 to 22 children per month, following the Israeli occupation’s control of the Rafah border crossing on May 7.

The organization stressed that the health care system in the Gaza Strip “has collapsed, and there is no longer any place for those who need specialized medical care.”