The Commissioner-General of UNRWA said that reports indicate that at least 100 children have been killed and injured every day in Gaza since the resumption of bombing on March 18, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
“It’s heartbreaking,” Lazzarini said in a post on the X platform, adding that “young lives are being lost in a war not made by children.” He noted that 15,000 children have been reported killed since the beginning of the war a year and a half ago.
He noted that the ceasefire at the beginning of the year gave Gaza’s children a chance to survive and live their childhood. He added, “But the resumption of war has once again robbed them of their childhood, turning Gaza into a land where there is no place for children. It is a stain on our common humanity.”
He stressed that there is no justification for the killing of children, wherever they are, and called for a resumption of the ceasefire now.
