Algerian Radio
The spokesperson for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), James Elder, stated on Tuesday that Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, are paying a heavy price due to the ongoing aggression by the Zionist occupation and its settlers.
Speaking to reporters in Geneva, the UN official warned that children in the occupied West Bank are paying an "unbearable price," noting that nearly 70 children have been martyred since January 2025, an average of at least one child per week, while 850 others have been injured, most of them by live ammunition.
James Elder emphasized that this occurs "amid historic levels of settler attacks," pointing out that March 2026 recorded the highest number of Palestinians injured by settler attacks in the last twenty years.
He also highlighted the rise in education-related attacks, which include the killing, injury, and detention of students, as well as the demolition of schools. He warned that "schools, which should be places of safety and stability, are increasingly turning into places of panic."
For her part, the World Health Organization (WHO) representative in the occupied Palestinian territory, Reinheld Van de Weerdt, told reporters in Geneva via video link from occupied Al-Quds that "10,000 children in Gaza are living with permanent, life-altering injuries."
The spokesperson explained that about 43,000 out of the 172,000 people injured in Gaza since October 2023 suffered severe injuries to their limbs, spinal cord, or brain. Furthermore, nearly 2,500 people have been injured since the ceasefire in October 2025. She noted that "out of 2,277 people who underwent limb amputations, fewer than 25 percent have been provided with permanent prosthetics," attributing this to the "acute shortage of prosthetic limbs within the Strip."
