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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
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Danielle Summer

UNICEF Estimate That More Than 17,000 Children Have Lost Their Parents In Gaza

Israel's offensive has displaced the vast majority of civilians in Gaza and left 25 per cent of people facing starvation, data shows. Photo: AFP / MAHMUD HAMS

More than 17,000 Palestinian children have been left unaccompanied or separated from their parents in the Gaza Strip, the children's arm of the United Nations has estimated.

UNICEF (the Convention on the Rights of the Child) also reported that almost all of the children in the besieged enclave are in need of urgent mental health support.

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