🛑In #Gaza: 625,000 children including 300,000 UNRWA students have lost one year of school. 🛑 Four in five school buildings in Gaza have been directly hit or damaged. They need to be rebuilt or fixed to be used as schools. I told Education Cannot Wait : ➡️ The longer children stay

What’s it like to be a girl or a woman in #Gaza following 10 months of war. Here’s a glimpse but there’s much more: * Women & girls can often spend months without taking a shower, going through several menstrual cycles without washing up. * They have to cut their hair very

A very grim milestone at the world’s watch. 40,000 lives reportedly gone in just over 10 months in #Gaza. And possibly, it’s even more. Whatever dispute there is over the numbers, there is no dispute over the immense suffering. This is a direct result of a collective failure

at UNRWA, we are joining the call for seven days of a humanitarian pause in the #Gaza Strip to allow for two rounds of vaccination campaigns against #Polio Our medical teams in support of our partners will provide children under the age of 10 with vaccines in UNRWA health

#Polio does not care about dividing lines #Polio does not wait #Gaza 👇

On #WorldHumanitarianDay, we remember + pay tribute to aid workers killed & injured around the world. In #Gaza, there have been way too many of them since the war started 10 months ago. At least 289 aid workers including 207 UNRWA team members & 885 health workers lost

Is there any humanity left? Reports of another horrific attack today on one of our UNRWA schools in #Gaza city. Children reported killed & injured. Some were burnt to death. #Gaza is no place for children anymore. They are the first casualty of this merciless war. We cannot

Very sad. World Health Organization (WHO) confirms that a 10-month-old baby in #Gaza is now paralysed due to #Polio. The first case in more than 25 years. Polio will not make the distinction between Palestinian & Israeli children. Delaying a humanitarian pause will increase the risk of spread among

Again & again #children in #Gaza are at the forefront of bearing the brunt. Recent research 👇 highlights that the risk of family separation has dramatically increased in the past months, exacerbated by multiple rounds of displacements, arrests, Israeli evacuation orders and

Yes. UNRWA is partnering with UNICEF & World Health Organization (WHO) in the #Gaza #polio campaign. Our medical teams will provide the vaccines to children under the age of 10 as we have been doing since the war started with vaccines for children. Thanks to these efforts, 80% of children were

Israeli security forces’ operations in northern #WestBank continue impacting Palestine Refugees. Among the people reported killed are children & one person with disabilities. More than 150 Palestinian children were killed in the West Bank since the war started on 7 October

The spread of misinformation & disinformation continues to be used as a weapon in the war in #Gaza. As part of its campaign to undermine & discredit UNRWA, the Government of Israel has been buying ads on Google to block users from giving donations to the Agency + undertake a

“I am relieved” says a mother in #Gaza after her baby girl receives the two drops of vaccines in UNRWA clinic. 1st phase of the #polio campaign kicks off in the middle areas. This is a race against time to reach just over 600,000 children across the Gaza Strip in the coming

Heartwarming to be back in Yarmouk camp in #Syria. A place that has seen so much destruction & suffering. I visited it in 2020, a ghost neighborhood, with few returnees having no other choice than to live in the rubble. We decided to rehabilitate a school + health & community

Boys and girls around the region are going back to UNRWA schools except in #Gaza. More than 600,000 children there are deeply traumatized, living in the rubble. They continue to be deprived of learning + schooling. Half of them used to be in UNRWA schools. The longer children

Meanwhile in the #WestBank: for more than six days now, #Jenin has been ravaged by violence + destruction. This is causing loss of life & injuries including among civilians + severe damage to infrastructure. Over more than 150 hours, people have been undergoing an Israeli

Great progress! Every day in the Middle Areas of #Gaza, more children are getting vaccines against #Polio. Huge 🙏 to our UNRWA health teams & partners + World Health Organization (WHO) UNICEF for doing the impossible to reach every child under the age of 10. I hope the campaign will continue as