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Israeli Blockade Leaves 1 Million Children in Gaza Without Basic Necessities 'Yet Again': UNICEF
"My children are crying at home from hunger and I have nothing to give them," said one mother. "I can't afford to buy what we need....
Michael Laxer
Mar 174 min read
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Last major hospital in North Gaza knocked out as children continue to die in Israeli attacks
Devastation of the hospital and its courtyard by Israeli attacks -- image via Al Jazeera video screenshot The World Health Organization...
Michael Laxer
Dec 28, 20242 min read
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Israel's Ferocious Bombing of Northern Gaza Halts Polio Vaccination Effort
"It is imperative to stop the polio outbreak as soon as possible," the World Health Organization warned, "before more children are...
Michael Laxer
Oct 24, 20243 min read
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Israel's War on Palestinian Children Must End
The betrayal of these children by the international community shall stain the collective consciousness of humankind for decades to come....
Michael Laxer
Sep 5, 20244 min read
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Relentless Israeli Assault Keeping Medical Teams From Delivering Polio Vaccines, Aid
"Children in Gaza are already suffering from starvation and rampant infectious disease as a result of Israel's blockade and attacks on...
Michael Laxer
Aug 26, 20244 min read
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Amid Cease-Fire Talk, Israel's Siege Still Causing Child Starvation in Gaza
"Blocking humanitarian aid and creating the conditions for famine is not only an act of extreme cruelty—using starvation as an act of...
Michael Laxer
Jun 13, 20243 min read
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UNICEF finds 1 in 4 children under 5 globally, 9 out of 10 in Gaza, experience severe child food poverty
Image via the Palestinian People's Party UNICEF released a report June 5 that found that 181 million children worldwide under 5 years of...
Michael Laxer
Jun 6, 20242 min read
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Laos becomes first country in Southeast Asia to ban corporal punishment of children
Thongloun Sisoulith, General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party and President of Laos Various Sources The Lao People's...
Michael Laxer
May 5, 20241 min read
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Sri Lanka: Govt-IMF Reach Agreement but Basic Question Remains
Sri Lanka’s economic crisis has worsened due to IMF deals, causing social unrest, unemployment, poverty, and food insecurity, and posing...
Michael Laxer
Mar 28, 20245 min read
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One-Third of Children Under 2 in Northern Gaza Now Acutely Malnourished
"Malnutrition among children is spreading fast and reaching devastating and unprecedented levels in the Gaza Strip due to the...
Michael Laxer
Mar 16, 20243 min read
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"The child deaths we feared are here, as malnutrition ravages the Gaza Strip": UNICEF
Image via X The Gaza Health Ministry has reported a heartbreaking tragedy: at least 15 children have lost their lives in the past few...
Michael Laxer
Mar 3, 20242 min read
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Two-month-old baby dies due to malnutrition in Gaza City
Image via the Palestinian People's Party In yet another horrific example of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, a two-month-old child, named...
Michael Laxer
Feb 25, 20242 min read
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Israel's Assault Has Traumatized Virtually All of Gaza's 1 Million+ Children: UNICEF
By Julia Conley, Common Dreams Out of the 1.7 million people who have been forced from their homes in Gaza by Israel's bombardment over...
Michael Laxer
Feb 2, 20243 min read
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Thousands of Babies Being Born Into 'Hell' in Gaza, Says UNICEF
"Humanity cannot allow this warped version of normal to persist any longer," said a UNICEF official. "Mothers and newborns need a...
Michael Laxer
Jan 20, 20244 min read
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Child poverty amidst wealth: Over 1 in 5 children live in poverty in world's richest countries
In an astonishing indictment of austerity politics in countries like the United Kingdom and of the nature of US capitalism, according to...
Michael Laxer
Dec 6, 20232 min read
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15,899 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, at least 6,600 of them children
Image of the aftermath of Gaza bombardments via UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) spokesperson James Elder on X Al Jazeera reports that in his...
Michael Laxer
Dec 4, 20232 min read
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'Nightmarish Situation' as Israel Resumes Assault on Gaza
"Anything other than sustained peace and at-scale emergency aid will mean catastrophe for the children of Gaza," said a UNICEF...
Michael Laxer
Dec 1, 20234 min read
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On World Children's Day remember the over 5,500 children killed in Gaza since October 7
Image of a memorial to some of the children killed in Gaza at a protest in Toronto, November 4. Since then at least another 2,000...
Michael Laxer
Nov 20, 20231 min read
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"The world cannot stand silent while hospitals...are transformed into scenes of death, devastation"
As calls mount around the world for an immediate ceasefire and an end to Israel's indiscriminate attacks, Al-Jazeera reports on Sunday...
Michael Laxer
Nov 12, 20233 min read
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Israel Has Killed More Kids in 3 Weeks Than Were Killed in All Global Conflicts Annually Since 2019
"One child's death is one too many, but these are grave violations of epic proportions," said the humanitarian group Save the Children....
Michael Laxer
Oct 30, 20233 min read
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