InPics | Gaza's children face unimaginable trauma on World Children's Day-Xinhua
InPics | Gaza's children face unimaginable trauma on World Children's Day
Source: Xinhua
Editor: huaxia
2025-11-20 18:17:18
BEIJING, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- World Children's Day, celebrated annually on Nov. 20, promotes the rights and welfare of children globally and commemorates the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Across the Gaza Strip, two years of bombardments and fighting have resulted in catastrophic devastation. More than 64,000 children have been reported killed and injured, and over 56,000 children have lost one or both parents, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). All children have experienced traumatic events and significant interruptions to their education.
The war has already cost children in Gaza so much. They now deserve a durable and lasting peace so the long recovery process can begin, said UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell.
Displaced Palestinian children are seen in Gaza City, April 7, 2025. (Photo by Mahmoud Zaki/Xinhua)A boy sits among rubbles after an Israeli airstrike in the Al-Rimal area, west of Gaza City, Aug. 8, 2025. (Photo by Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua)Palestinians fleeing from the north of the Gaza Strip are pictured as they cross the Gaza Valley in the central Gaza Strip, Aug. 31, 2025. (Photo by Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua)A displaced Palestinian child is seen inside a school-turned shelter in Gaza City, June 20, 2025. (Photo by Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua)A Palestinian child takes a bath amid summer heat among tents for displaced people on the shores of Gaza City, July 18, 2025. (Photo by Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua)Palestinian students study at a temporary shelter in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Jan. 6, 2025. (Photo by Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua)Displaced Palestinian children play in a shelter in Gaza City on Dec. 9, 2024. (Photo by Mahmoud Zaki/Xinhua)Palestinian children are seen near their damaged house in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on March 3, 2025. (Photo by Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua)■
