{"id":251812,"date":"2021-05-15T15:13:11","date_gmt":"2021-05-15T19:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&p=251812"},"modified":"2021-05-17T15:14:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T19:14:27","slug":"eight-palestinian-children-killed-in-the-gaza-strip-last-night-press-release","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/eight-palestinian-children-killed-in-the-gaza-strip-last-night-press-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight Palestinian Children Killed in the Gaza Strip Last Night – Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Ted Chaiban, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa<\/h3>\n
AMMAN, 15 May 2021<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 \u201cEight Palestinian children were reported killed north of Gaza overnight, bringing to at least 40 the number of children killed there since 10 May. The age of these children ranges between six months to 17 years. Over half of them were under 10 years old. More than 1,000 people in Gaza are reported injured, some severely, including a high number of children. In Israel, two children, including a six-year-old, were killed since the escalation began.<\/div>\n
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\u201cIn the past week, in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, one 16-year old child was killed and at least 54 Palestinian children were reported injured, another 26 children have been arrested. Most have since been released.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Gaza, 35 schools have been damaged while at least 29 schools are temporarily sheltering displaced families who fled their homes due to heavy violence. Up to 10,000 people have been displaced, the majority are children. UNICEF received reports that three schools have been damaged in Israel.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe scale of violence is massive. Children are bearing the brunt of this escalation. All sides need to step back and end the violence. All sides have an obligation to protect civilians \u2013 especially children \u2013 and facilitate humanitarian access.\u00a0 The underlying triggers for this violence will not be resolved through further violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Ted Chaiban, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa AMMAN, 15 May 2021\u00a0\u2013 \u201cEight Palestinian children were reported killed north of Gaza overnight, bringing to at least 40 the number of children killed there since 10 May. The age of these children ranges between six months to 17 years. Over half […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"template-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1329],"document-source":[2105],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1769,1829,2033,2349,2309,2729,6245],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[],"class_list":["post-251812","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-press-release","document-source-united-nations-childrens-fund-unicef","document-subject-armed-conflict","document-subject-casualties","document-subject-children","document-subject-living-conditions","document-subject-protection","document-subject-shelter","document-subject-violence","entity-united-nations-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/251812","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\/172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/251812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=251812"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=251812"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=251812"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=251812"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=251812"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=251812"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=251812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}