{"id":320774,"date":"2026-10-07T11:49:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T15:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=320774"},"modified":"2026-11-05T12:49:53","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T17:49:53","slug":"unicef-report-7oct26","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unicef-report-7oct26\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope amid the Pain: Palestinian Children in the Gaza Strip One Year after the Ceasefire &#8211; Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵICEF Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>7 October 2026<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"sub-title\"><strong>More than 340 children have been reported killed, and over 600 others injured, many suffering life-altering injuries. Violence, displacement and loss continue to shape everyday childhood.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>One year since the ceasefire, childhood in Gaza is still defined by survival.<\/p>\n<p>More than 340 children have been reported killed, and over 600 others injured, many suffering life-altering injuries. Violence, displacement and loss continue to shape everyday childhood.<\/p>\n<p>The so-called \u201cYellow Line\u201d marks the edge of current Israeli physical presence. Nearly half of the children reported killed since the start of the ceasefire have lost their lives in areas near the line. Its gradual expansion continues to forcibly displace families while the lack of clear demarcation on the ground puts children at grave risk.<\/p>\n<div class=\"paragraph-component-text field_component_sec_blocks-item odd\">\n<div class=\"text--block-content section-block-content\">\n<div class=\"comp-txt\">\n<div class=\"field paragraph field_component_text_content odd-t text_long\">\n<p>The ceasefire created more space for humanitarian action, but it has not yet delivered the safety, stability and recovery Palestinian children need and which is a requirement of the ceasefire agreement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Beyond the direct harm, some 800,000 children remain displaced, many with no home to return to. Families are living in tents, overcrowded areas or damaged buildings, surrounded by rubble and accumulated solid waste. Some 60,000 of these children are living without one or both parents killed during the war, or since the ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>For Palestinian children in Gaza, the rights to safe water, sanitation, health care, education, protection and play remain far from fully realized. Put simply, children have suffered too much already.<\/p>\n<div class=\"paragraph-component-text field_component_sec_blocks-item odd\">\n<div class=\"text--block-content section-block-content\">\n<div class=\"comp-txt\">\n<div class=\"field paragraph field_component_text_content odd-t text_long\">\n<p>Put simply, children have suffered too much already.<\/p>\n<h4>What children need now:<\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Safety and protection, wherever they are in Gaza, across the State of Palestine or Israel\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Parties to the conflict uphold the terms of the ceasefire and Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵSC Resolution 2803 and their obligations under international humanitarian law.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Humanitarian assistance that can bridge from survival to recovery\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Parties to the conflict provide access and protect humanitarians to enable assistance for communities wherever they are.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Donors and partners commit to providing flexible and sustained resources to protect and improve services and children\u2019s lives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Restore critical services and systems for lasting recovery\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As per the ceasefire plan, Israel enables the large-scale entry of the materials, equipment, and technical supplies needed to rehabilitate critical infrastructure and restore essential services. This includes the re-electrification of Gaza to reduce the need for costly emergency power solutions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Children\u2019s voices at the centre of recovery\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Put Palestinian children at the centre of recovery and invest in their healing, learning and futures. Recovery is about more than rehabilitating facilities, delivering supplies or restoring services. It is about children returning to school, spending time with friends and family, playing safely, receiving health care when they need it, and regaining a sense of stability and everyday life. This is what meaningful recovery should look like for the next generation of Palestinian children.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-component-text field_component_sec_blocks-item even\">\n<div class=\"text--block-content section-block-content\"><strong>Related content:<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/childhood-defined-by-struggle-for-survival-in-the-gaza-strip-unicef-press-briefing\/\">Childhood defined by struggle for survival in the Gaza Strip &#8211; Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵICEF Press Briefing &#8211; Question of Palestine<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 7 October 2026 More than 340 children have been reported killed, and over 600 others injured, many suffering life-altering injuries. Violence, displacement and loss continue to shape everyday childhood. One year since the ceasefire, childhood in Gaza is still defined by survival. More than 340 children have been reported killed, and over 600 others <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unicef-report-7oct26\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1323],"document-source":[2105],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1945,2265,2033,2441,2005,1741,7023],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-320774","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-report","document-source-united-nations-childrens-fund-unicef","document-subject-assistance","document-subject-ceasefire","document-subject-children","document-subject-education-and-culture","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-human-rights-and-international-humanitarian-law","document-subject-recovery","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/320774","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\/320774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320791,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/320774\/revisions\/320791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=320774"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=320774"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=320774"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=320774"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=320774"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=320774"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=320774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}