Overview
- UNICEF said Thursday that at least 300 children have been killed in the roughly 300 days since the October 10, 2025 ceasefire, an average of about one child per day.
- The agency reports families are crowded into roughly one third of the Gaza Strip, sheltering among rubble and uncleared waste and facing acute malnutrition, disease, unsafe water and broken sanitation.
- Health services are under severe strain, with UNICEF and staff warning there are not enough incubators and some newborns are sharing machines in partially functioning hospitals.
- Humanitarian partners continued large‑scale emergency work in the first half of 2026, delivering emergency water trucking to more than 1.15 million people and sanitation services to about 516,000, while providing primary health care and education programs to hundreds of thousands.
- UN agencies welcomed recent roadmap and peace‑plan announcements but warned that ongoing military operations near the so‑called 'Yellow Line' and persistent access restrictions must stop and be converted into safe, unimpeded aid and protection for children or child deaths and service collapse will continue.