While the bombs and bullets may have stopped for the ceasefire, children in Gaza are still suffering from trauma, and malnutrition, Tess Ingram, spokesperson for UNICEF Gaza, tells Al Arabiya News.
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00:00Yeah, we have been saying for a long time now that Gaza is the most dangerous place
00:03in the world to be a child. And that was during the war when, of course, the bombs and the
00:07bullets killed and injured children in large numbers. And we saw horrific scenes of children
00:12being crushed to death while waiting for flour, of dying of hypothermia in the middle of the
00:16night because they didn't have warm shelter, starving from malnutrition. Now, children
00:22are no longer being killed by the bombs and the bullets in this ceasefire. But those other
00:26humanitarian crises persist. Malnutrition persists. The lack of safe water persists.
00:31The lack of adequate medical care persists. So what we're really focused on at the moment
00:36as UNICEF is bringing in supplies and scaling up services to meet those needs. For example,
00:42we're bringing in nutrition supplies for malnourished kids. We're scaling up malnutrition screenings
00:46to find the children that need those supplies. We're bringing in vaccines for immunisation.
00:51We're trying to help hospitals set up incubators and neonatal departments so that preterm babies
00:57and sick infants have somewhere to go for medical care. We're trying to repair water
01:01systems and make sure that access to water is something that every child has, especially
01:06in the north of Gaza where water systems have been decimated by bombardment. So these are
01:11just some examples, but it is a really, really big job.