UNICEF chief warns Gaza kids face 'post-generational challenges'

7/10/2024 11:42

        After a year of military operations between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, the head of UNICEF warned that children there will face "post-generational
        challenges” due to the conflict.
        
        "If you look at Gaza really through the eyes of a child, it is a hellscape," UNICEF's executive director Catherine Russell told CBS News' "Face the Nation" on Sunday, noting the toll of family deaths and displacements, as well as ongoing lack of food and clean water.
        
        "They are so traumatized by what's happening," Russell said of the kids. "Even if we can get more supplies in there, the trauma that these children are suffering is going to have lifetime and even post-generational challenges for them."
        
        The fighting started on Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas fighters killed 1,200 civilians and took about 250 hostages in Israel, according to Israeli tallies.