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GENEVA (Reuters) – Unicef said on Friday that 17,000 children in Gaza were left unaccompanied or separated from their families due to the ongoing conflict, and that almost all children in the Palestinian enclave were in need of care. psychological support.
“They (children) exhibit symptoms such as extremely high levels of persistent anxiety, loss of appetite. They cannot sleep, they have emotional outbursts or they panic every time they hear a bombing,” said Jonathan Crickx, UNICEF communications chief for the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
“Before this war, Unicef already estimated that 500,000 children in Gaza needed psychosocial support. Today, we estimate that almost all children need this support, more than a million children” , he added.
(Report by Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber; French version Dagmarah Mackos, edited by Sophie Louet)
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