NEW YORK (Dispatches) – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said that children in the besieged Gaza Strip live in “constant terror due to Israeli bombardment.”
UNICEF spokesperson James Elder said, “The situation in Gaza is worsening for children day by day, with the intense heat and families crammed into tents on the sand.”  
He emphasized that “with ongoing restrictions on aid entry, more than 250 days into the war on Gaza, Gazans are facing extreme difficulties in obtaining food for their children.”
Elder also stated that almost 3,000 malnourished children are at risk of dying before their families’ eyes in Gaza.  
“There are 3,000 children we were providing with emergency food aid, and now we do not know their whereabouts,” he added. 
Separately, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) says more than 50,000 children in the Gaza Strip require immediate medical treatment for acute malnutrition.
The agency said in a recent statement that “with continued restrictions to humanitarian access, people in Gaza continue to face desperate levels of hunger.” 
“UNRWA teams work tirelessly to reach families with aid but the situation is catastrophic,” the agency said. 
Israel’s savage military assault in the Gaza Strip is taking a catastrophic toll on children.
More than 14,000 children have reportedly been killed during months-long Israeli aggression, according to the latest estimate by the Palestinian Ministry of Health. There are no safe spaces for Palestinians. 
The aggression has claimed the lives of more than 37,300 people.  
All of Gaza’s children have been exposed to the traumatic experiences of war, the consequences of which will last a lifetime. Their homes have been destroyed; their families torn apart.   
Around 1.7 million people in the Gaza Strip are estimated to have been internally displaced -- half of them children. They do not have enough access to water, food, fuel and medicine.