UNICEF tells Al Jazeera what Gaza urgently needs but doesn’t have
As Gaza’s displaced Palestinians suffer from winter storms, UNICEF explains the basic needs essential to save children.

As Gaza’s displaced Palestinians suffer from winter storms, UNICEF explains the basic needs essential to save children.




![Palestinians shove to receive food portions from a charity kitchen in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Aug. 27, 2025. The UN officially declared a famine in Gaza on August 22, blaming the "systematic obstruction" of aid by Israel during more than 22 months of war. The Rome-based Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Initiative (IPC) said famine was affecting 500,000 people in Gaza governorate, which covers about a fifth of the Palestinian territory including Gaza City. [AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image-1756494449.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
![Internally displaced Palestinians, including children, hold pots as they gather to receive food from a charity kitchen in Gaza City, the Gaza Strip on August 4, 2025 [File: Mohammed Saber/EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/13242027-1754389709.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)



Ministry says 589 women and at least 185 children have been killed in Israeli attacks on Lebanon over past 13 months.
UN’s children’s agency says there’s an urgent need for access to clean water, sanitation as Red Cross mobilises relief.
Report examines child food poverty worldwide, with a focus on ‘catastrophic impact’ of Israel’s onslaught on Gaza.
UNICEF says one of its vehicles came under fire during an attempted aid delivery to northern Gaza.
As the war continues, the UN agency warns tens of thousands of children will ‘likely die’ without more aid.
More than one million children in the besieged Gaza Strip now require mental health support, UNICEF says.
Water and sanitation services are at the point of collapse with large-scale disease outbreaks looming, UNICEF warns.
Many more children have been killed in Gaza every day compared with Ukraine, Afghanistan, Iraq, other conflict zones.
According to UNICEF, an average of 420 Palestinian children killed or injured every day in Gaza Strip since October 7.
Nine children have been killed and more than 50 wounded since the conflict broke out on Saturday, UNICEF says.