Right now, Gaza is one of the most dangerous places in the world for children. Currently, the war in Gaza and Israeli authorities’ total siege on the entry of aid and goods have pushed families to take unimaginable measures to survive. Without urgent action to end the siege and to allow food and medicine into Gaza, one million children are at risk of starvation, disease and ultimately death, says Save the Children.

• More than 19,000 children have been killed.
• Over 20,000 children are still missing.
• Almost 1,000,000 people are facing starvation.

Save the Children staff members have received reports in recent days of families in northern Gaza resorting to desperate measures, including eating animal feed, expired flour and flour mixed with sand, out of desperation to survive. A 30-year-old father, living in northern Gaza with his pregnant wife and two-year-old child, said: “I don’t know how to feed my family. There’s no food. I have no choice but to eat things you would never imagine. It’s unfair. She’s weak (his daughter), constantly sick, and can’t get up. She has diarrhoea. She’s in pain from hunger. My wife is going to lose our unborn child… It’s desperate here – chaos. We don’t know what awaits us. No one is living a dignified life. Why is this happening to us?”

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