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UNICEF deputy warns Gaza children are dying, urges 500 trucks a day of aid and commercial access
Summary
Ted Chaiban, UNICEF deputy executive director, described grave child malnutrition and deaths in Gaza, called for scaled humanitarian and commercial access (about 500 trucks a day), and said UNICEF has delivered dozens of trucks but needs far more to prevent famine.
TED CHAIBAN, UNICEF deputy executive director, told reporters after a five-day mission to Israel, Gaza and the West Bank that children in Gaza are facing “deep suffering and hunger” and that the situation has reached “a grave risk of famine.”
Chaiban said “over 18,000 children have been killed in Gaza since the beginning of the war,” an average of about “28 children a day,” and that two indicators have now exceeded famine thresholds. He said more than 320,000 young children are at risk of acute malnutrition and that global malnutrition in Gaza is “now at over 16.5 percent.”
The briefing outlined UNICEF’s ongoing relief work and what Chaiban called urgent gaps. UNICEF is delivering water and medical support, he said, including about 2,440,000 liters of safe water per day in northern Gaza reaching some 600,000 children (roughly 5–6 liters per person per day). UNICEF has rebuilt vaccine cold-chain capacity and continued vaccination campaigns, including a polio campaign in…
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