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Q&A with Head of UNICEF Gaza

UNICEF’s Chief of Gaza Field Office Pernille Ironside took questions during a live Q&A session on Reddit on Wednesday.

Yazidi refugees receive lifesaving UNICEF supplies

“We walked for more than 20 hours with no food or water,” says Juan, a teenage girl who arrived at Nawrouz refugee camp in north-east Syria three days ago, along with eight family members. Juan is from the Yazidi minority group, many of whom are fleeing to Syria from the mountains of Sinjar in Iraq. Sinjar, … Continued

“It is so hard to live these days”

“It is so hard to live these days,” says 10-year-old Mohammed, who has taken shelter in a UN-run school in Gaza City after fleeing the family home in Shishaya. “There was shelling. My family and I hid under the staircase. We were very scared and rightly so, because our home was destroyed. Thanks to the staircase, we survived. We ran away, it was scary because the whole neighbourhood was being shelled. Now we are in this school. I feel safe here, it is a school,” he says.

More than 10 children killed every day in Gaza

As the hostilities enter their twenty-first day, the number of children dying is growing. More than 1,000 Palestinians have been reported killed so far, of whom around 230 were children – more than 10 a day. The youngest child killed was only 3 months old.

A humanitarian pause for children in Gaza

A humanitarian pause is taking place today in Gaza for five hours. UNICEF staff members are on the ground, checking primary health care clinic and hospitals to help injured children and evaluate their needs.

Learning to code in a refugee camp

Applying innovative technologies to the largest emergency in the world is a necessary yet tricky challenge. Leading that challenge in Lebanon is James Cranwell-Ward (JCW) a technology specialist from the UK. His innovations lab has been creating some inspirational ideas that UNICEF are testing out in Lebanon such as Raspberry Pi.

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