GAZA CITY – United Nations children’s agency UNICEF has revealed that at least 100 children have been killed in the Gaza Strip in the three months since a ceasefire began in early October 2025. UNICEF spokesperson James Elder, speaking from Geneva, stated that the confirmed fatalities include 60 boys and 40 girls, largely due to Israeli airstrikes, drone attacks, tank shelling, and direct gunfire. While the ceasefire has slowed large-scale bombardments, Elder warned that “survival remains conditional” and that a child is still being killed nearly every day. Gaza’s Ministry of Health reports a higher figure of 165 child fatalities during this period, bringing the total death toll since the truce to 442.
The humanitarian crisis has been further exacerbated by a brutal winter storm that has destroyed hundreds of displacement tents and claimed the lives of at least six more children due to hypothermia and flooding. With 80% of Gaza’s infrastructure damaged and nearly two million people living in makeshift shelters, the extreme cold and 40-kilometer-per-hour winds are leaving families defenseless. One toddler reportedly froze to death in a tent, while other residents were killed when storm-damaged buildings collapsed. Humanitarian agencies are now making an urgent appeal for winter kits, thermal blankets, and emergency shelter, stressing that current aid levels are insufficient to prevent a mass loss of life from exposure. Your donations to organizations like UNICEF or the Red Crescent are critical to providing life-saving warmth and medical care to the vulnerable children of Gaza during this catastrophic winter.
