1 million children in Gaza need mental health support for depression, anxiety

At least 1,000,000 kids in Gaza urgently need intellectual health and psycho-social assistance for melancholy, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts, the UN comfort chief said Thursday.

“The ceasefire has provided an important reprieve from relentless hostilities for Palestinians,” Tom Fletcher told a Security Council consultation at the plight of children in Gaza.

He burdened the significance of keeping the ceasefire through all sides and introduced that “secure, unobstructed humanitarian access alongside the absence of hostilities and the nearly entire cessation of crook looting during the last days has extensively progressed our capability to function.”

Describing the grave impact of the battle, Fletcher stated, “Children have been killed, starved, and frozen to death. They were maimed, orphaned, or separated from their circle of relatives. Conservative estimates suggest that over 17,000 youngsters are without their households in Gaza.”

Noting that an estimated one hundred fifty thousand pregnant ladies and new mothers are “in desperate want of fitness services,” he stated a number of the babies in Gaza “died before their first breath — perishing with their mothers in childbirth” due to Israel’s relentless assaults.