NEW YORK, October 6, 2025 (WAFA) - UNICEF Spokesperson, James Elder, warned that nowhere is safe in the Gaza Strip, stating that, “Everyone bears some responsibility for this, but there is only one victim. Yesterday, today, and without meaningful action, tomorrow. Palestinian girls and boys.”

He said that Gaza City remains home to tens of thousands of children, noting: “You’ve got shoeless children pushing their grandparents around the rubble, amputee children struggling through the dust, and mothers carrying exhausted children whose skin is bleeding because of severe rashes.”

He stressed that children are shuddering under the relentlessness of airstrikes, saying that “the logic imposed on children is both brutal and contradictory.”

Elder added that issuing a general or blanket evacuation order to civilians does not mean that those who remain behind lose their protection as civilians.

He pointed out that the Al-Mawasi area is now one of the most densely populated places on earth: “It is grotesquely overcrowded and has been stripped of the most basic essentials of survival.”

“When the world adjusts and normalizes this level of violence and deprivation, something is profoundly broken,” he said.

He stressed that “the strength of international law doesn’t lie in paper, but in the resolve of member states to uphold it.”

T.R.