The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has reported that nearly 50,000 Palestinian children have been killed or injured in the past 20 months of Israel’s war on Gaza. In a stark statement issued on Monday, the agency described the situation as "one of the worst humanitarian disasters in modern history," with Gaza rendered uninhabitable for children under the total collapse of basic services.

According to UNRWA, children are not only falling victim to relentless airstrikes, but also suffering a slow death from hunger, disease, and the breakdown of Gaza’s crippled healthcare system. The Israeli blockade has led to severe shortages of food, clean water, and medicine, pushing the already devastated territory into an even deeper humanitarian abyss.

The agency stressed that even UNRWA-run schools and shelters, meant to be sanctuaries for displaced families, have been repeatedly targeted, killing and maiming hundreds of children in places once considered safe. These attacks have stripped Gaza’s children of their last remaining spaces of refuge.

Beyond the physical toll, more than one million children in Gaza are experiencing acute psychological trauma. The loss of parents, the destruction of homes, the constant fear of death, and the absence of education have left an entire generation mentally scarred and emotionally shattered.

UNRWA concluded with a desperate plea for immediate international intervention, warning that silence in the face of such atrocities is tantamount to complicity. "If the world does not act now," the agency stated, "we are witnessing the erasure of an entire generation of Palestinian children."