Nearly one in six children aged under 5 in gaza—an estimated 55 000—are acutely malnourished, of whom almost a quarter are so severely malnourished that they have “little chance of rehabilitation,” new research shows To date, 259,409 children (133,051 boys, 126,358 girls) have enrolled in the programme and received basic learning activities delivered by thousands of teachers covering arabic, english, mathematics, and science. 1,644,293 people with 839,000 children below the age of 18 (51 % of the population)
There are 251,829 children under the age of five, including 54,923 under 12 months. There is a total absence of education in gaza, leaving 625,000 children out of school. The war has also decimated educational infrastructure, leaving 70,000 children without access to kindergartens and preventing early learning opportunities for younger children that are crucial for their cognitive and social development.
Children have a special status in conflict and must be protected Yet these are some of the shocking realities of life in gaza for children Nearly all children in gaza are at imminent risk of famine
