Overview
- UNICEF reported the deaths since the US-brokered truce took effect on October 11, calling the pattern of child fatalities during the pause staggering.
- The tally includes a baby girl killed in an air strike on a home in Khan Younis and seven other children killed a day earlier during a wave of Israeli attacks.
- Doctors Without Borders said its teams treated women and children with open fractures and gunshot wounds during this week’s strikes in Gaza.
- UNICEF described children sleeping in the open or in flooded, makeshift shelters as supplies like tents and blankets remain constrained.
- Save the Children reported an average of 475 children per month in 2024 suffering lifelong disabilities, with Gaza described as having the largest cohort of child amputees in modern history.