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Children are starving to death from dehydration and malnutrition in Sudan every day
by IPC, Plan International, UNICEF, agencies
 
Feb. 2026
 
Children dying because of hunger as famine risks detected in two new locations in Sudan - Save the Children International
 
Two more areas of Sudan have fallen into famine-levels of malnutrition, signalling a deadly expansion of a hunger crisis in the conflict-torn country that is threatening millions, Save the Children said.
 
New data released today by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), global acute malnutrition rates in the Um Baru and Kernoi localities have reached nearly 53% and 34% respectively, with concerns that nearby areas may also be experiencing similar catastrophic conditions, with the extent remaining unknown due to access constraints.
 
This latest announcement comes on top of an already severe hunger crisis sweeping through conflict affected parts of the country, with famine confirmed in Zamzam displacement camp in North Darfur in August 2024. In September 2025, the expanding famine was also confirmed in El Fasher (North Darfur) and Kadugli (South Kordofan).
 
For famine conditions to be reached, many people must already be experiencing an extreme lack of food, with starvation, death, destitution and extremely critical acute malnutrition levels evident.
 
Across Sudan, acute malnutrition is expected to worsen in 2026 according to the alert, with a 13.5% increase in cases of acute malnutrition in children under five and pregnant and breastfeeding women – from 3.7 million children and women in 2025, to nearly 4.2 million in 2026. Violent conflict ensues, undermining humanitarian service delivery and disrupting people’s access to agriculture production and livelihoods, exacerbating vulnerability and suffering.
 
Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) – the most dangerous and deadly form of extreme hunger – is expected to increase to 800,000 cases.
 
Severe acute malnutrition is a life-threatening condition requiring urgent treatment, which is impossible to access across much of Sudan due to the collapse of the country’s health system, with hospitals in conflict-affected zones no longer functional due to attacks, looting, and shortages of staff, medicines, and essential supplies.
 
Mohamad Abdiladif, Country Director for Save the Children in Sudan, said:
 
“In many parts of Sudan, children’s lives are hanging by a thread, and some already dying from hunger‑related causes. Families who have escaped bullets and bombs and those who are in difficult to access areas are now facing extreme and life threating shortages of food. Every day we hear devastating stories of parents selling the last of what they own simply to keep their children alive from one day to the next. Without immediate action, more lives will be lost.
 
“As our frontline teams in Sudan consistently witness, extreme hunger can be both life-altering and life-ending for a child. Children facing severe malnutrition have dramatically higher death rates—succumbing not only to starvation and dehydration, but also to preventable diseases that become deadly as hunger weakens their bodies.
 
“We urgently need donor governments to step up now, to restore the lifeline before it breaks entirely, and to push for strong, sustained diplomatic pressure on parties to the conflict that protects civilians and guarantees safe, unhindered humanitarian access.
 
“Without this, any chance of restoring reliable access to food will disappear. Supporting mutual aid, strengthening communities’ coping capacities, and ensuring unimpeded, large‑scale humanitarian response are essential to prevent people from being pushed into starvation and to avert further loss of life and suffering.
 
Beyond immediate survival, childhood malnutrition causes irreversible long-term harm. Affected children often experience stunted growth, impaired cognitive development, and learning difficulties. They face elevated risks of chronic illnesses throughout their lives, along with lasting psychological trauma.
 
http://www.savethechildren.net/news/children-dying-because-hunger-famine-risks-detected-two-new-locations-sudan http://www.ipcinfo.org/ipcinfo-website/countries-in-focus-archive/issue-143/en/ http://www.unicef.org/sudan/stories/generational-crisis-looms-sudan
 
Feb. 2026
 
Sudan: UN expert calls for more support to Emergency Response Rooms volunteers. (OHCHR)
 
As war continues to ravage Sudan with horrific consequences, local Emergency Response Rooms volunteers continue to risk their lives to deliver life-saving aid across the country, a UN expert said today.
 
Millions of people have been forced to flee their homes in terror and are either displaced internally or across neighbouring borders, where they are at increased risk of rape and other sexual violence, trafficking, torture and ill-treatment, detention, disappearances and abductions for ransom. In addition to the enduring violence, the people in some parts of Sudan are also faced with famine, with lack of access to safe water and adequate sanitation resulting in a significant increase in preventable diseases.
 
“In the midst of the terror of war and operating in unimaginably difficult circumstances under the constant threat of detention and violence, Emergency Response Rooms (ERRs), along with youth and community-led initiatives, have remained committed to delivering life saving assistance to those in need,” said Cecilia Bailliet, the Independent Expert on international solidarity.
 
“Grounded in the Sudanese tradition of nafeer (collective action), the Emergency Response Room volunteers have been vital in ensuring the provision of food, water, medicine and shelter to millions, as they are able to access dangerous, hard-to-reach areas,” said the expert.
 
“While these solidarity networks have been crucial lifelines since the eruption of the war, more must be done by the international community and all relevant actors, to support them, and all parties to the conflict must do more to ensure access to critical humanitarian aid, including food, medicine, medical equipment, or other vital supplies, in line with international humanitarian law,” said Bailliet. “The people of Sudan deserve to look to the future with hope, and the international community must not fail them,” she added.
 
http://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2026/02/sudan-un-expert-calls-more-support-emergency-response-rooms-volunteers
 
Oct. 2025
 
2025 Right Livelihood Award: Sudan's Grassroots Emergency Response Rooms
 
Emergency Response Rooms (ERRs) are receiving the 2025 Right Livelihood Award for their grassroots network of mutual aid in Sudan that restores dignity to local communities and sustains millions amid the world’s largest humanitarian crisis.
 
Emergency Response Rooms (ERRs) are a Sudanese grassroots, community-led network that has become the backbone of the country’s humanitarian response amid war, displacement and state collapse. Building on local traditions of mutual aid, ERRs operate in all 18 states, providing healthcare, food assistance, education, civilian protection and psychosocial support where many international aid organisations cannot reach. Their work has sustained millions and champions a model of humanitarian aid that offers dignity and decision-making power to local communities.
 
ERRs organised their first community kitchens and health services to help communities cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. When war broke out in April 2023, Sudan’s already severe humanitarian crisis became the world’s largest, and ERRs expanded to fill critical gaps left by a collapsing economy and state institutions.
 
ERRs are a nationwide network of over 735 Emergency Response Rooms and nearly 10,000 volunteers. Operating in all 18 Sudanese states, they provide healthcare, food, education, civilian protection and psychosocial support at a time when violence and lack of funding have forced many international organisations to scale down their presence.
 
By decentralising decision-making and drawing on Sudan’s tradition of nafeer—community mutual aid—ERRs have built a model of humanitarian action that puts communities themselves in charge of identifying needs and directing resources. Professionals like farmers, bankers, engineers and teachers all contribute their skills to create a solidarity economy rooted in dignity and resilience.
 
Despite bombardments, arbitrary arrests and the loss of over one hundred volunteers, ERRs continue to operate hospitals, run communal kitchens, organise education programmes, evacuate civilians from active war zones and support survivors of conflict-related sexual violence. Their efforts have saved countless lives while nurturing a culture of compassion and solidarity that lays the groundwork for Sudan’s future civil society and democratic renewal.
 
Right Livelihood’s jury said that ERRs were receiving the Award “for building a model of mutual aid amid war and state collapse that sustains millions of people with dignity.”
 
Sanosi Adam, ERRs’ External Communications Officer, said:
 
“Receiving the Right Livelihood Award is not only a recognition of our work, but also a tribute to the courage and sacrifice of ordinary Sudanese people who, in the face of war and neglect, chose solidarity over despair. This award belongs to the countless volunteers and communities who continue to risk everything to keep one another alive. It strengthens our resolve to carry forward our struggle for dignified aid and solidarity of the people of Sudan.”
 
Ole von Uexkull, Right Livelihood’s Executive Director, said:
 
“As Sudan endures the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, Emergency Response Rooms (ERRs) show how communities can rise to the gravest challenges, delivering aid that is dignified, effective and rooted in solidarity. In honouring ERRs, we celebrate the power of people to confront systemic crises by building just and cooperative alternatives to violence and division.”
 
http://rightlivelihood.org/the-change-makers/find-a-laureate/emergency-response-rooms http://www.mutualaidsudan.org/
 
Sep. 2025
 
The Rafto Human Rights Prize 2025 is awarded to The Emergency Response Rooms of Sudan (ERRs) for their courageous work to preserve the most fundamental human right - the right to life.
 
The Emergency Response Rooms of Sudan are grassroot networks that emerged in the wake of the war in Sudan in 2023. They consist of thousands of volunteers who engage in collaborative, community driven efforts to meet urgent humanitarian needs of others, at great personal risk. The ERRs save lives and maintain human dignity in a place of misery and despair.
 
Saving lives and strengthening communities in one of the worst humanitarian crises of our times.
 
After the brutal war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) broke out in April 2023, the Sudanese state collapsed. As a consequence, civilians have an enormous need for humanitarian assistance.
 
In a desperate attempt to save lives, ordinary Sudanese took matters in their own hands and formed self-help groups to offer services supporting basic life, welfare, and human dignity through Emergency Response Rooms (ERRs).
 
To mitigate excessive loss of life and human suffering, ERRs provide key services such as health, food, water, body retrieval and burial. They also work on monitoring, documenting, and responding to cases of sexual violence.
 
Sudan is now torn by death, hunger, disease, displacement and general despair. Since the outbreak of the war, more than 150 000 people have died. More than half of the country’s population –30 million people– need humanitarian assistance. 25 million face acute food insecurity. 12 million have fled from their homes.
 
Women and children have been disproportionally affected, including by an alarming rise in gender-based violence. In this dire situation, ERR members continue to provide life-saving mutual aid, strengthening communities and keeping a hope for a democratic Sudan alive under almost impossible conditions.
 
The Rafto Prize 2025 honours the Emergency Response Rooms and the thousands of individuals protecting the right to life and health, who are building hope in Sudan, at tremendous risk to their own lives.
 
The prize is also a recognition of the significance of their grassroot mobilization and collective effort in ensuring basic human rights in times of conflict. The need for protection of human rights and humanitarian assistance is becoming greater by the day. In these trying times, we must all stand in solidarity with the people of Sudan.
 
http://www.rafto.no/en/the-rafto-prize/emergency-response-rooms-of-sudan-err http://www.refugeesinternational.org/advocacy-letters/safe-passage-protection-for-civilians-under-siege-in-el-fasher/ http://www.mutualaidsudan.org/ http://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/el_fasher_emergency_loc/ http://resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/document/emergency-response-rooms-in-sudan http://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2025/04/15/eight-stories-about-mutual-aid-mark-two-years-war-sudan
 
Aug. 2025
 
Children are starving to death from dehydration and malnutrition in Sudan every day - IPC, Plan International, UNICEF, agencies
 
In response to the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report on the situation of famine in Sudan, Plan International Sudan’s Country Director, Mohamed Kamal, says: “We are already seeing signs of mass starvation in camps where mothers arrive unable to feed their children and today’s IPC forecast is a grave warning the situation is only going to get worse. Our fears are becoming a reality.
 
“This is the worst hunger crisis is the world right now – the conflict is entering its third year and the IPC have warned the situation is expected to deteriorate dramatically between July and September, with children most at risk. 24.6 million people in Sudan face high levels of acute food insecurity with 8.1 million facing emergency levels.
 
“Famine was detected in 5 areas in El Fasher and the Western Nuba Mountains and these areas are particularly difficult to reach to provide humanitarian aid as the security situation is so severe here. With the impending rainy season due, travel will be further hindered which will also drive-up food insecurity levels in the months ahead.
 
“Children are starving to death from dehydration and malnutrition in Sudan every day. Hundreds of thousands are malnourished. A 10-year-old girl recently told us that for months her only meal has been lentil soup every day and that she dreams of fruit.
 
“For girls and young women, the impact is especially severe – girls often eat last and least and are at greater risk of early marriage, as families struggle to feed their children.
 
“The inaccessibility of safe water has led to a widespread outbreak of cholera in many parts of the country with over 32,000 suspected cases recorded this year. Cholera can be deadly for malnourished and dehydrated children.
 
“Last month we saw an attack on a joint UN humanitarian convoy in North Darfur in which aid workers were killed and life-saving food and nutrition supplies destroyed rather than reach starving families. It is getting increasingly hard to operate in the most at need regions.
 
“As the conflict continues, farming is disrupted and Sudan faces serious economic instability and high inflation which limits people’s access to food. This has been compounded with overseas aid cuts as community kitchens who relied on this money can no longer operate.
 
“This is the world’s largest humanitarian emergency the international community must urgently support a peaceful resolution to this conflict, which has been devastating the people of Sudan for over 2 years.”
 
Dr. Unni Krishnan, Global Humanitarian Director at Plan International said:
 
“Hundreds of thousands of people are on the brink of famine, while tens of millions more have dangerously little to eat. Without a permanent ceasefire that allows aid to reach all parts of the country and a rapid, large-scale increase in humanitarian funding, countless more children will die from hunger and preventable disease. Now is the time to act to save lives.”
 
http://plan-international.org/news/2025/07/11/children-starve-famine-risk-persists-sudan/ http://www.ipcinfo.org/ipcinfo-website/countries-in-focus-archive/issue-132/en/ http://www.ipcinfo.org/fileadmin/user_upload/ipcinfo/docs/IPC_Alert_Sudan_July2025.pdf http://www.ipcinfo.org/ipc-country-analysis/en/?maptype=77108 http://www.wfp.org/news/one-year-after-famine-first-confirmed-sudan-wfp-warns-people-trapped-el-fasher-face-starvation http://www.icrc.org/en/news-release/sudan-attacks-kordofan-states-hundreds-deaths-displacement-collapse-services http://www.mercycorps.org/press-room/releases/famine-tightens-grip-on-sudan-ingos-call-for-immediate-access-for-aid http://www.unicef.org/press-releases/children-sudan-reduced-skin-and-bones-unicef-calls-urgent-action http://www.unicef.org/sudan/press-releases/over-640000-children-under-five-risk-cholera-spreads-sudans-north-darfur-state
 
http://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/10/sudan-un-human-rights-chief-appalled-continued-killing-civilians-el-fasher http://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/08/sudan-un-expert-concludes-official-visit-port-sudan-expressing-alarm http://www.unicef.org/press-releases/number-severely-malnourished-children-doubles-north-darfur-nutrition-crisis-deepens http://www.savethechildren.net/news/sudan-children-reveal-harrowing-violence-latest-north-darfur-mass-displacement http://reliefweb.int/report/sudan/ipc-alert-famine-affected-areas-sudan http://reliefweb.int/report/sudan/sudan-women-food-insecurity-and-famine-risk-sudan-gender-snapshot-21-july-2025
 
* IPC Child Acute Malnutrition Classification latest: http://tinyurl.com/4n25jjbz


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Children must always be protected
by Catherine Russell
UNICEF Executive Director
 
UNICEF calls for urgent investment in life-saving services for children as global humanitarian needs reach new extremes.
 
Surging conflicts, rising hunger, global funding cuts, and collapsing basic services are driving humanitarian needs for children to extreme levels worldwide.
 
As UNICEF’s Humanitarian Action for Children 2026 (HAC) appeal is launched today, US$7.66 billion is urgently required to provide life-saving assistance to 73 million children - including 37 million girls and over 9 million children with disabilities – across 133 countries and territories next year.
 
Across every region, children caught in emergencies are facing overlapping crises that are growing in scale and complexity.
 
Escalating conflicts are driving mass displacement and exposing children to grave violations at the highest levels ever recorded.
 
Attacks on schools and hospitals continue unabated, while verified cases of rape and other forms of sexual violence against children are rising sharply. In many crises, children and the aid workers attempting to reach them are being deliberately targeted.
 
“Around the world, children caught in conflict, disaster, displacement and economic turmoil continue to face extraordinary challenges,” said UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell. “Their lives are being shaped by forces far beyond their control: violence, the threat of famine, intensifying climate shocks, and the widespread collapse of essential services.”
 
The global humanitarian funding environment has deteriorated dramatically in 2025. Announced and anticipated funding cuts by donor governments are already limiting UNICEF’s ability to reach millions of children in dire need. Severe shortfalls in 2024 and 2025 are forcing UNICEF to make impossible choices.
 
Across UNICEF’s nutrition programming alone, a 72 per cent funding gap in 2025 forced cuts in 20 priority countries – reducing planned targets from more than 42 million to over 27 million women and children.
 
In education, a shortfall of US$745 million has left millions more children at risk of losing access to learning, protection and stability.
 
For child protection, rising violations coincide with shrinking resources, threatening programmes for survivors of sexual violence, children recruited or used by armed groups, and those requiring urgent health support.
 
“Severe funding shortfalls are placing UNICEF’s life-saving programs under immense strain,” said Russell. “Across our operations, frontline teams are being forced into impossible decisions: focusing limited supplies and services on children in some places over others, decreasing the frequency of services children receive, or scaling back interventions that children depend on to survive.”
 
At the same time, humanitarian access is being restricted at levels unseen in recent years. In many emergencies, UNICEF and partners cannot reach children trapped behind shifting frontlines, making sustained humanitarian diplomacy essential to secure access and to protect children from escalating violations.
 
UNICEF warns that more than 200 million children will require humanitarian assistance in 2026. Many live in protracted crises, leaving entire generations at risk of under-nutrition, denied education, exposed to disease outbreaks, and deprived of safety and stability.
 
“The current global funding crisis does not reflect a decline in humanitarian need, but rather a growing gap between the scale of suffering and the resources available,” said Russell.
 
“While UNICEF is working to adapt to this new reality, children are already paying the price of shrinking humanitarian budgets.”
 
UNICEF is urging national governments, public sector donors and private sector partners to increase their investment in children, prioritising flexible and multi-year funding; support locally led response and national systems; uphold humanitarian principles and the centrality of protection; and remove barriers that impede humanitarian access.
 
http://www.unicef.org/press-releases/unicef-calls-urgent-investment-life-saving-services-children-global-humanitarian http://www.unicef.org/press-releases/remarks-unicef-executive-director-catherine-russell-launch-unicefs-humanitarian
 
Feb. 2026
 
2026 brings no respite to children living in violence and conflict in the Middle East and North Africa - Statement by UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa Edouard Beigbeder:
 
"We are only a few weeks into the new year and already the toll of violence and conflict on children in the region is devastating.
 
“Children have been killed, injured, displaced, arrested and detained, and denied education and other essential services. The conflicts and crises across the Middle East and North Africa are experiencing ongoing flashpoints that are altering children’s lives, often irreparably.
 
“In Syria, renewed violence and clashes in the northeast of the country have displaced almost 200,000 people, about half children, and disrupted essential services. At least five children are reported to have died in Ain Al Arab/Kobani due to the lack of health services and winter supplies.
 
“In Sudan, in January 2026, at least 20 children were killed, most of them killed in the Kordofan and Darfur states. Millions of children in Sudan require lifesaving assistance, protection and the restoration of essential services. Famine has already been confirmed in Al Fasher, North Darfur and Kadugli, Kordofan, with nearly 20 other areas at risk as conflict restricts the delivery of critical humanitarian supplies.
 
“In Iran, recent events have had devastating consequences for children and adolescents. More than 144 children have been reportedly killed, while many others have been reportedly injured or detained. UNICEF is strongly advocating with the Iranian authorities for the protection of children from violence, including to end any arrest or detention of children. The fear of a further escalation in Iran is also taking a heavy toll on children and their parents. We urge all involved to deescalate tensions and prioritise peace.
 
“In the Gaza Strip, while a fragile ceasefire has provided some improvements, the situation remains extremely precarious and deadly for many children. Children continue to endure airstrikes, and are impacted by shattered health, water and education systems. Since the beginning of the year, 37 children have been reported killed across the Gaza Strip. The ceasefire must hold and deliver on its promise to end the suffering of children in Gaza.
 
“In the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, rising violence and conflict continues to undermine children’s access to safety, leaving families in a perpetual state of fear and uncertainty. In January, two children were killed in the West Bank and 25 injured.
 
“Elsewhere in the Middle East and North Africa, protracted conflicts and fragile contexts are increasing humanitarian needs. Yemen’s children continue to face multiple crises, including ongoing conflict, economic insecurity and widespread malnutrition, and families in Lebanon continue to struggle to recover from the recent war, while dealing with the fear of ongoing strikes.
 
“Violence, including grave violations against children, such as killing and maiming, are unacceptable. Children must always be protected, yet the first month of 2026 across the Middle East and North Africa has already been marked by the devastating loss of young lives.
 
“UNICEF urges all governments and parties to conflict to uphold their obligations under international humanitarian and human rights law, and take immediate action to end the violence, killing, injuring, arrest and detention and traumatizing of children. What all children need most is peace.”
 
http://www.unicef.org/press-releases/2026-brings-no-respite-children-living-violence-and-conflict-middle-east-and-north http://www.unicef.org/emergencies http://www.unicef.org/media/press-releases
 
Aug. 2025
 
UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Ted Chaiban's remarks following his recent travel to Israel, Gaza and the West Bank:
 
"I just returned from a five-day mission to Israel, Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and I speak to you with deep urgency and profound concern today.
 
"This was my fourth visit to Gaza since the war began after the horrors of October 7th, itself building on decades of an unresolved conflict. You see the images on the news, and you know what has happened, but it is still shocking when you are there.
 
"The marks of deep suffering and hunger were visible on the faces of families and children. Over 18,000 children have been killed in Gaza since the beginning of the war. That’s an average of 28 children a day, the size of a classroom, gone. Children have lost loved ones, they are hungry and scared, and they are traumatised.
 
"Gaza now faces a grave risk of famine. This is something that has been building up, but we now have two indicators that have exceeded the famine threshold. One in three people in Gaza are going days without food, and the malnutrition indicator has exceeded the famine threshold, with global acute malnutrition now at over 16.5 per cent [in Gaza City]. Today, more than 320,000 young children are at risk of acute malnutrition.
 
"On Monday, when I was in Gaza, I met the families of the 10 children killed and 19 injured by an Israeli airstrike while they were queuing for food with their mothers and fathers at a nutrition clinic in Deir el-Balah that UNICEF supports.. This simply should not be happening. The children I met are not victims of a natural disaster. They are being starved, bombed, and displaced.
 
"At a stabilisation centre in Gaza City, I met acutely malnourished infants whose bodies were little more than skin and bone. Their mothers sat nearby, desperate and exhausted. One mother told me she no longer produces breastmilk - she herself is too hungry.
 
UNICEF is trying to do everything we can to address the situation but the needs are enormous after 22 months of war, two months of a blockade, aid is not at the required scale to meet the overwhelming needs.
 
We have over 1,500 trucks of life-saving supplies ready across corridors in Egypt, Jordan, Ashdod, and Turkey.
 
"We have called for more humanitarian aid and commercial traffic to come in - moving closer towards 500 trucks a day - to stabilize the situation and reduce the desperation of the population.
 
"In order to address that, we need to flood the strip with supplies using all channels and all gates. This is not going to be achieved through humanitarian aid alone, and so we also pushed for commercial goods to get into the strip - eggs, milk and other essential supplies that complement what the humanitarian community is bringing in.
 
"We pressed for 'dual-use' items and more fuel to be allowed in so that the water system can be repaired. It is very hot in Gaza - 40 degrees -and water is in short supply, with the risk of disease outbreak looming everywhere.
 
"We pressed for a review of their military rules of engagement to protect civilians and children. Children should not be getting killed waiting in line at a nutrition centre or collecting water, and people should not be so desperate as to have to rush a convoy.
 
"We will continue to advocate so that the humanitarian pauses do not lead to further displacement, pressing the population into an ever smaller area.
 
"I should also say that I visited the West Bank. There, too, children are under threat. So far this year, 39 Palestinian children have been killed. I visited a Bedouin community east of Ramallah, which was forcibly displaced due to violence.
 
"We also met with Israeli children impacted by the war. Children who have endured fear, loss, and displacement. Children don't start wars, but they are the ones impacted by the wars.
 
"But today, I want to keep our focus on Gaza—because it is in Gaza where the suffering is most acute, and where children are dying at an unprecedented rate.
 
"We are at a crossroads. The choices made now will determine whether tens of thousands of children live or die. We know what must be done and what can be done. The UN and NGOs that form the humanitarian community can address this, along with commercial traffic, if the measures are in place to allow access and eventually have enough goods in the Strip that some of the issues that are there with law and order abate.
 
"Funding is needed. UNICEF’s appeal for Gaza is critically underfunded - only 30 per cent of health and nutrition needs are covered.
 
"We hope that the parties can agree on a cease-fire and the return of all remaining hostages by Hamas and other armed groups. This has gone on for far too long. 22 months. What is happening on the ground is inhumane. What children need - children from all communities - is a sustained ceasefire and a political way forward.
 
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* IPC Child Acute Malnutrition Classification latest: http://tinyurl.com/4n25jjbz


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