children in conflict

July saw the highest number of child casualties in Ukraine in more than four years with the number of children killed or injured totalling 183, Save the Children said.

Four Palestinian children have reportedly been killed and several injured by Israeli forces over the past six days, including a 10 year old in a tent in Gaza today, said Save the Children. The child rights organisation called once again for urgent international intervention.

After 1,000 days of war, children in Gaza said they had lost homes, schools and a sense of safety but not their hopes for the future with even the ongoing violence failing to stop them from dreaming of peace and careers to help them rebuild their communities.

At least five children have been killed and seven more children injured by an unexploded ordnance (UXO) that detonated next to them in southern Yemen in the deadliest incident for children so far this year, Save the Children said

Since the temporary ceasefire 22 children have been killed in Lebanon, and 89 injured in less than a month.

Whilst an extension of the ceasefire has been agreed, children still cannot tell the difference between the sound of thunder and bombs, as families are too afraid to return home.

Response to the temporary pause in hostilities in Lebanon - almost 20 children a day have been killed and injured by Israeli forces airstrikes since 2 March, nearly 800 children injured or killed.

Children in Lebanon have been separated from their families following 24 hours of brutal airstrikes

Scorecard from humanitarian organisations assessing core civilian protection and humanitarian access provisions of the ceasefire plan reveals failure.

New report released by Save the Children reveals over 1.6 million people have returned to front line areas in Ukraine despite the dangers.

Since the UN truce in April 2022, at least 339 children have been killed due to shelling, gunfire, landmines and other explosive remnants of war, while a further 843 have been injured.

Ten days since the first strikes in the Middle East and wider region 83 children have been killed in Lebanon, and almost 300 children have been killed in the region.

As armed conflict spreads in the wider region, about 58,000 people, including an estimated 16,000 children have been displaced in Lebanon in the past three days children with seven children reported killed.

The current rate of evacuation means it would take 4.5 years for the 20,000 people including 4,000 children needing medical care to leave Gaza, Save the Children said.

The partial opening of the Rafah border has created a sense of disappointment across Gaza with families and children in urgent need of medical evacuation being left in limbo waiting for news, Save the Children said.

The leaders of over 20 major aid groups in Gaza call for urgent intervention after a UN commission concluding, for the first time, that genocide is being committed.

At least one Palestinian child has been killed every hour on average by Israeli forces in Gaza over nearly 23 months of war, with the number of children killed now surpassing 20,000, Save the Children said.

Children in frontline areas of Ukraine have lost 25% more days of learning due to the war than the world’s longest COVID-19 school closures, as a lack of bomb shelters means it is still too dangerous to for children to attend class, Save the Children said today.

Below is a statement from Save the Children International CEO Inger Ashing to the UN Security Council on Wednesday, 27th August.

Fuel shortages in Gaza could cut off supplies of clean drinking water to about 44,000 children supported by Save the Children in a matter of days, increasing the risk of waterborne illnesses such as cholera, diarrhoea and dysentery, with these children only a small number of those impacted by fuel running out.