The United Nations says at least 100 children are in Gaza As the strike resumed on March 18, even as the United States stressed Israeli support.

Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN Palestinian Refugee Agency (UNRWA), released on Saturday on X.

He said Israel turned the surrounded territory into “landless” for children and lamented that “the young life” was “shortened in a war created by not children.”

“This is a stain on our common human nature,” Lazzarini said.

“It’s painful.

At least 100 children are in #gazadue to strike recovery (March 18) @unicef

Young Life has been shortened in a war without children.

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UNICEF says at least 322 children have been reportedly killed since Israel updated its offensive on March 18 Effective ceasefire January 19.

UNICEF executive director Catherine Russell said on Monday that the ceasefire “provides a lifeline that is urgently needed for children in Gaza and hopes to have a road to recovery.”

“But the kids are once again trapped in a cycle of deadly violence and deprivation,” she said.

“Every number representing life”

Significant to the Palestinian Children’s Day, the Palestinian Ministry of Education said on Saturday that children are children The most targeted victim Since October 2023, Israel has aggression, with more than 17,000 of which have been killed in Gaza.

The ministry said, “The numbers reflect the depth of the tragedy children experience, and each number represents what life, memory and experience is lost.”

The Palestinian group Hamas also condemned what it calls Israel’s “willful killing, detaining and torture of children and depriving them of their basic human rights.”

It warned that Israel’s “imprisonment is encouraged to further escalate Palestinian children”.

“About 1,100 children have been detained by the Israeli army since October 7, 2023, and about 39,000 children have lost one or two parents due to the violence,” Hamas said in a statement.

Israel’s occupation “continues to target children through systematic crime, including using them as human shields, depriving them of education, and attempting to cut off their national identity in the occupied territories in 1948 by manipulating curriculum, the spread of crime, and destruction values.”

The data was published in a joint statement by the Palestine Detainees Committee, the Palestinian Prisoners Association and the Addameer Prisoners Support and Human Rights Association that since 7 October 2023, Israel has detained 1,200 Palestinian children from the occupied West Bank.

The statement said that children detainees suffer from “torture, hunger, medical neglect and systematic deprivation” every day.

It said the conditions recently resulted in the death of the first child prisoner since the beginning of the Gaza war, 17-year-old Walid Ahmad, from the town of Silvad in northeastern Ramara, was killed in Megido Prison in northern Israel.

According to the Palestinian and Israeli Human Rights Report, more than 9,500 Palestinians, including women and more than 350 children, are currently held in Israeli prisons in Israeli prisons.

Meanwhile, the UNRWA said more than 142,000 Palestinians were displaced between March 18 and March 23, and warned of another humanitarian disaster in Gaza after the ceasefire went down.

“About 1.9 million people, including thousands of children, have experienced forced displacement since the beginning of the war in Gaza,” said a statement issued by the Sunilan Agency on Children’s Day.

Since October 2023, Israel has killed more than 50,600 Palestinians in Gaza, most of whom are women and children.

The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant last November against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for his war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza. Israel also faces genocide cases by the International Court of Justice for its war on the enclave.