{"id":212754,"date":"2006-08-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T20:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=212754"},"modified":"2019-03-12T20:29:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T20:29:38","slug":"auto-insert-212754","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-212754\/","title":{"rendered":"Humanitarian assistance to Gaza – Geneva press briefing – Press release"},"content":{"rendered":"
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REGULAR PRESS BRIEFING BY THE INFORMATION SERVICE<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Humanitarian Assistance to Gaza <\/u><\/strong><\/span>
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\nMichael Bociurkiw from Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵICEF said the humanitarian situation in Gaza was slowly becoming a children’s catastrophe given the fact that last month alone 38 children had been killed; that was the highest number of children killed since the beginning of the <\/span>intifada<\/i><\/span>. Of this number 25 per cent were below the age of ten. In addition to the children who faced physical risks, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵICEF was concerned about those who had been inflicted by what they refer to as the “invisible injuries”, namely the psychosocial trauma resulting from the conflict. Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵICEF had been providing psychosocial counseling to children and caregivers to help them recovery from this trauma. Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵICEF’s message was that all sides had a responsibility to protect children in Gaza who numbered around 800,000. Mr. Bociurkiw added that at the end of the week Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵICEF would be issuing a donor update providing more specific figures on Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵICEF’s activities in Gaza. <\/span>
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\nResponding to a question, Mr. Bociurkiw said Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵICEF’s main areas of responsibility in Gaza addressed education, child protection, water and sanitation, and health and nutrition needs. Some three-quarters of the population in Gaza were totally reliable on outside assistance, he said. <\/span>
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\nAsked to elaborate what was meant by “all sides had a responsibility to protect children in Gaza”, while illustrating a point through by drawing attention to the number of unexploded ordnance left behind in Gaza thus putting children at risk, Mr. Bociurkiw said everyone had a role to protect the most vulnerable in their situation; in the case of Gaza these most vulnerable were the 800,000 children who lived there. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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