UNICEF deputy executive director, Ted Chaiban, has told the UN Security Council that “the bodies of thousands of missing children remain buried under the rubble” in Gaza.
Chaiban was speaking at a special UNSC meeting on the UN chief’s recent report on violations against children in armed conflict.
“In 2023, 4,312 Palestinian and 70 Israeli children were verified as killed or maimed, representing 37 percent of all verified cases of killing and maiming included in the report,” Chaiban said.
But the number of children who remain buried under the rubble, and a lack of access for humanitarian actors, means that the UN was unable to include thousands more reported cases of children killed from Gaza in the report, he added.
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