{"id":306283,"date":"2025-03-16T15:06:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T19:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=306283"},"modified":"2025-03-17T15:06:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T19:06:26","slug":"palestinian-children-remain-deprived-of-the-most-essential-supplies-and-services-unicef","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/palestinian-children-remain-deprived-of-the-most-essential-supplies-and-services-unicef\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian children remain deprived of the most essential supplies and services, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵICEF"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"rw-entity-image rw-entity-image--with-copyright\">\n<footer class=\"rw-entity-image__copyright\"><\/footer>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"rw-report__content\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Statement by Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵICEF Middle East and North Africa Regional Director Edouard Beigbeder<\/h2>\n<p><strong>EAST JERUSALEM\/THE GAZA STRIP, 16 March 2025<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 \u201cI have just concluded a four-day mission to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The situation is extremely concerning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFar too often, children in the State of Palestine are the victims of this relentless conflict. Nearly all of the 2.4 million children living across the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, are affected in some way. Some children live with tremendous fear or anxiety; others face the real consequences of deprivation of humanitarian assistance and protection, displacement, destruction or death. All children must be protected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout aid entering the Gaza Strip, roughly 1 million children are living without the very basics they need to survive \u2013 yet again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStalled just a few dozen kilometers outside the Gaza Strip sit more than 180,000 doses of essential childhood routine vaccines, enough to fully vaccinate and protect 60,000 children under 2 years of age, as well as 20 lifesaving ventilators for neonatal intensive care units. While Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵICEF managed to deliver 30 CPAP respiratory machines \u2014 which significantly aid newborns experiencing acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and prematurity \u2014 the ventilators are essential for infants needing advanced respiratory support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTragically, approximately 4,000 newborns are currently unable to access essential lifesaving care due to the major impact on medical facilities in the Gaza Strip. Every day without these ventilators, lives are lost, especially among vulnerable, premature newborns in the northern Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cÄ¢¹½ÊÓƵICEF is advocating for these lifesaving children\u2019s health supplies to be allowed to enter. There is no reason why they shouldn\u2019t be.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn accordance with international humanitarian law, civilians\u2019 essential needs must be met, and this requires facilitating the entry of lifesaving assistance whether or not there is a ceasefire in place. Any further delays to the entry of aid risk further slowing or shuttering essential services and could fast-reverse the gains made for children during the ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to deliver these supplies for children, including newborns, before it is too late. And we must keep essential services running. I visited the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵICEF-supported water desalination plant in Khan Younis in Gaza, the only facility that received electricity since November 2024 and which has now been disconnected. It is now running at only 13 per cent of its capacity, depriving hundreds of thousands of people from drinkable water and sanitation services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the West Bank including East Jerusalem, more than 200 Palestinian and 3 Israeli children were killed since October 2023, the highest figure recorded in such timeframe in the past two decades.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Jenin and the north of the West Bank, more than 35,000 have been forced to leave their homes and their belongings and find shelter elsewhere. Education is heavily disrupted for nearly 12,000 children, because of the recent population displacements. The children in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, are often exposed to roadblocks and the absence of school supplies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Jenin, I met with many displaced mothers and children in shelters. They told me how much they were suffering from the violence, the fear and the disruption to education. They said they were not asking for charity, just for the respect of their rights and the possibility to return to their homes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cÄ¢¹½ÊÓƵICEF continues to do everything we can to protect and support children in the State of Palestine. We are repairing water systems, running mental health sessions, setting up learning centers and advocating constantly with decision makers for access and for the violence to cease. But this alone is not enough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChildren must not be killed, injured or displaced and all parties must respect their obligations under international law. Civilians\u2019 essential and protection needs must be met, and humanitarian assistance must be allowed to flow at speed and scale. All hostages must be swiftly released, and the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip must continue and support lasting solutions to the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTens of thousands of children have been killed and injured. We must not go back to a situation that pushes these numbers higher.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Media Contacts<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Ammar Ammar<\/strong><br \/>\nÄ¢¹½ÊÓƵICEF Amman<br \/>\nTel: +962 791 837 388<br \/>\nEmail: aammar@unicef.org<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tess Ingram<\/strong><br \/>\nÄ¢¹½ÊÓƵICEF Middle East and North Africa<br \/>\nTel: +962 7 9385 7212<br \/>\nEmail: tingram@unicef.org<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jonathan Crickx<\/strong><br \/>\nÄ¢¹½ÊÓƵICEF East Jerusalem<br \/>\nEmail: jcrickx@unicef.org<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statement by Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵICEF Middle East and North Africa Regional Director Edouard Beigbeder EAST JERUSALEM\/THE GAZA STRIP, 16 March 2025\u00a0\u2013 \u201cI have just concluded a four-day mission to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The situation is extremely concerning. \u201cFar too often, children in the State of Palestine are the victims of this relentless conflict. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/palestinian-children-remain-deprived-of-the-most-essential-supplies-and-services-unicef\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":301,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1329,1338],"document-source":[2105],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1769,5449,1829,2033,2005,2533,5200,1857,2385,6251],"entity":[],"document-language":[],"class_list":["post-306283","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-press-release","document-category-statement","document-source-united-nations-childrens-fund-unicef","document-subject-armed-conflict","document-subject-assistance-to-the-palestinian-people","document-subject-casualties","document-subject-children","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-health","document-subject-humanitarian-relief","document-subject-incidents","document-subject-security-issues","document-subject-west-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/306283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/301"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/306283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306314,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/306283\/revisions\/306314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=306283"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=306283"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=306283"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=306283"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=306283"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=306283"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=306283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}