{"id":317984,"date":"2026-02-06T14:51:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T19:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=317984"},"modified":"2026-05-12T14:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T18:52:11","slug":"unicef-video-un-special-representative-visits-gaza-children","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unicef-video-un-special-representative-visits-gaza-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵICEF video: Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Special Representative visits Gaza children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>6 February 2009<\/p>\n<p>The Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Secretary-Generals Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, Radhika Coomaraswamy, is in Gaza and southern Israel this week to assess the situation of children and advocate for their protection. In Gaza, Ms. Coomaraswamy, accompanied by a team from Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵICEF, visited a community centre, a school and a hospital all in the north, in and around Gaza City. She repeated calls for the territorys borders to be opened and access by humanitarian aid organizations to be expanded. The children want answers and the international community must deliver, declared Ms. Coomaraswamy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fusion-video fusion-youtube\" style=\"--awb-max-width:600px;--awb-max-height:350px;\"><div class=\"video-shortcode\"><div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top:58.33%;\" ><iframe title=\"YouTube video player 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y1fZjcO9Io4?wmode=transparent&autoplay=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture;\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Related document:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-192902\/\">SRSG for Children and Armed Conflict visit to Gaza and southern Israel &#8211; Press release &#8211; Question of Palestine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 6 February 2009 The Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Secretary-Generals Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, Radhika Coomaraswamy, is in Gaza and southern Israel this week to assess the situation of children and advocate for their protection. In Gaza, Ms. Coomaraswamy, accompanied by a team from Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵICEF, visited a community centre, a school and a hospital all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unicef-video-un-special-representative-visits-gaza-children\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[2377,2805],"document-source":[2821,2105],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2033,2441,2005,2533],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-317984","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-multimedia","document-category-video","document-source-special-representative-for-children-and-armed-conflict","document-source-united-nations-childrens-fund-unicef","document-subject-children","document-subject-education-and-culture","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-health","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/317984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/317984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317991,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/317984\/revisions\/317991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=317984"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=317984"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=317984"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=317984"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=317984"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=317984"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=317984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}