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GazaIsrael Blocks Wheelchairs for Injured Gaza Children
Over 900 custom mobility aids remain stuck in Jordan as COGAT denies entry, worsening conditions for thousands of amputee youth in the strip.
GazaFuel Crisis Halts Critical Care at Al-Rantisi Hospital in Gaza
Newborns and sick children face grave risks as generator failures force the suspension of vital medical departments due to severe supply shortages.
GazaSiege Stunts Growth of Gaza Children Amid Severe Malnutrition Crisis
Doctors report rising cases of irreversible developmental damage as blockade restricts essential nutrition and medical supplies for displaced families.
GazaGaza Students Return to Class in Tents After Three Years
Children resume studies in makeshift spaces with scarce resources as the new academic year begins under a dual education plan.
GazaGaza Families Face Soaring Costs as School Season Begins Amid Crisis
Parents struggle with inflated prices for supplies while children lose traditional rituals and attend classes in makeshift tents instead of proper schools.
WorldActivists Fly Kites in Europe to Support Gaza Children
Demonstrations in Netherlands and Britain counter Israeli threats by reclaiming kites as symbols of childhood joy.
CultureGaza Children Launch Media Channel From Displacement Tents
Young presenters in Al-Mawasi use improvised studios to share their own stories and reclaim narrative agency amid war.
Rights235 Palestinian children killed in the West Bank since 2023
An Israeli rights group's figures put the rate at about seven a month, against roughly one a month in the seventeen years before the Gaza war.
GazaFour children killed in five days; a well serving 4,000 damaged
The UN children's agency says five more children were left with lasting injuries on Tuesday, and that a strike wrecked a well and desalination unit at Deir al-Balah.
RightsIsraeli threats over kites should go to the ICC, monitor says
Ramy Abdu wants the statements filed as evidence with international bodies, and argues that pursuing children over a game cuts against the child-rights convention's Article 31.
Rights370 Palestinian children are held in Israeli prisons, centre says
Most are at Megiddo and Ofer, where released minors describe beatings, restraint and food withheld. Israeli forces arrested 276 children in the first half of the year.
Rights1,244 of Gaza's 1,275 mosques damaged or destroyed, office says
Gaza's government media office puts the number levelled outright at 1,077, says water installations are being taken apart along with the rest of the territory's civilian infrastructure, and asks the mediators to enforce the ceasefire they underwrote.
GazaIsrael threatens assassinations over kites found to be harmless
Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel Katz ordered the military to treat kites and balloons crossing out of Gaza as drones and to clear the areas they come from, days after the army said four recovered kites carried nothing dangerous.
RightsChild deaths in Gaza pass 20,000 with no soldier prosecuted
An analysis in the Israeli press puts the number of under-18s killed since October 2023 above 20,000, an average of about 28 a day, and argues that military inquiries are opened mainly where foreign attention has already fallen. More than 2,000 families have been struck off Gaza's civil registry altogether.
HealthChildren who lost limbs learn to swim at a pool in al-Mawasi
A rehabilitation programme takes about 30 children at a time, starting each session with psychological support and ending it in the water.
GazaIsraeli naval forces detain four fishermen off Gaza City
Fishermen's committees said naval boats fired on the vessel while its crew was working, then took four men off it. Two of them are 17 years old.
West BankIsrael returns the body of a 17-year-old withheld since March
Teams from the Palestinian civil affairs authority took the remains at a checkpoint north of Ramallah. A campaign that documents the practice counts 800 Palestinian bodies still held.
RightsIsrael opens a criminal inquiry into Hind Rajab's killing
Nine people were killed that day in January 2024 — the girl, six of her relatives and the two medics sent to reach her. Her grandmother has rejected the inquiry and asked for an independent international one instead.
HealthDoctors say malnutrition has permanently stunted famine survivors
A six-year-old in Gaza City has the bone age of a two-year-old, and a 10-month-old born to a starving mother is being treated for her heart, kidneys and lungs. Food returning has not moved either diagnosis.
HealthAn 11-year-old in Gaza faces kidney failure without evacuation
Prolonged malnutrition and successive complications have sharpened his condition.
CultureIn Gaza, young survivors turn to drawing
Sixteen-year-old Maryam is among those using art to step outside the war.
GazaBoys as young as 14 clear rubble by hand in Gaza for about $10 a day
With reconstruction stalled, the work has become a household's only income.