UNICEF spokesman Kazem Abu Khalaf revealed today the details of the suffering of children who lost their parents in the Gaza Strip.

He explained to the Palestinian News Agency “Wafa” that the issue of orphaned children is called “unaccompanied children” due to the horrors of the aggression, whether the father is in the south, and the son remains with his mother in the north, or vice versa, or both were martyred during the war.

According to the organization’s official website, the spokesman indicated that “the number of unaccompanied children in Gaza is a purely estimated number because we cannot accurately determine the numbers.”

He added: “From our experience as an institution working in war and conflict zones in the world, out of the total number there is a percentage of 1 percent of unaccompanied children, whose father or mother may be alive, or orphans,” and he confirmed that there are “1.9 million displaced people in Gaza, and therefore, the estimated number is 19 thousand unaccompanied children who m
ay be orphans or whose parents were separated from them by the war.”

He noted that “these numbers are estimates and are measured by experience and conflict zones, and are less than 1% of the total number of displaced persons.”

Source: National News Agency – Lebanon