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<h1 class="gmail-single_title">UNICEF: 17,000 Children in Gaza have become orphaned or separated from their families</h1>
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<p>GAZA, (PIC)</p>



<p>The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has revealed that around 
17,000 children in Gaza Strip have become orphaned or separated from 
their families during the ongoing Israeli aggression since October 7th 
of 2023.</p>



<p>The organization added that almost all children in the Strip – more 
than a million children – are in need of support in the field of mental 
health.</p>



<p>Jonathan Crick, the Communications Officer at UNICEF in the occupied 
Palestinian territories, said on Friday that the children show symptoms 
such as extremely high levels of continuous anxiety, loss of appetite, 
inability to sleep, or experiencing emotional outbursts or panic every 
time they hear the sound of shelling.</p>



<p>For her part, Catherine Russell, the Executive Director of UNICEF, 
warned against abandoning the children of Gaza, saying that their 
situation is growing darker day by day.</p>



<p>A statement by the Joint Permanent Committee of United Nations 
agencies, dated January 31st, warned that the countries that suspended 
their financial support to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency 
for Palestine Refugees, UNRWA, would lead to a catastrophe for the 
people of Gaza.</p>
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