GENEVA (Reuters) - UNICEF said on Friday it estimated that 17,000 children in Gaza were unaccompanied or have been separated from their families during the conflict, and that nearly all children in the enclave were thought to require mental health support.
"They present symptoms like extremely high levels of persistent anxiety, loss of appetite.
"Before this war, UNICEF was considering already that 500,000 children were already in need of mental health and psychosocial support in Gaza.
Today, we estimate that almost all children are in need of that support, and that's more than 1 million children."
(Reporting by Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber; Editing by Rachel More)War in Israel and Gaza View All 194 Images
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Jonathan Crickx, Gabrielle Tétrault, Farber, Rachel More
Organizations:
UNICEF
Locations:
GENEVA, Gaza, Palestinian Territories, Israel