At least 2 children killed per day in Gaza since truce, says Unicef
- Last updated: November 22, 2025 | 11:39 ..
At least 67 children have been killed in conflict-related incidents since the ceasefire began in Gaza, the United Nations children’s agency said on Friday.
“Dozens more have been injured. That is an average of almost two children killed every day since the ceasefire took effect,” Unicef spokesperson Ricardo Pires told reporters in Geneva.
Unicef said on Thursday that a baby girl was killed in an airstrike in eastern Khan Younis in southern Gaza, alongside her parents. On Wednesday, seven children were killed in airstrikes in Gaza City and the south, Unicef said.
Meanwhile, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Friday that its medical teams in Gaza had treated Palestinian women and children this week for injuries from Israeli airstrikes and gunfire, almost six weeks into a fragile Israel-Hamas ceasefire.
Since Wednesday, medical staff in northern and southern Gaza have treated women and children with open fractures and gunshot wounds to their limbs and heads, according to Medecins Sans Frontieres, a charity also known as Doctors Without Borders.
MSF said that medical care had been provided in hospitals and clinics in Gaza City in the north and Rafah in the south.
A nine-year-old girl was treated on Wednesday at a Gaza City hospital for an injury to her face caused by gunfire from an Israeli drone, MSF said, citing a nurse in Gaza.
The Israeli military had no immediate comment when reached by Reuters for comment for this article. In the past, it has said that it does not intentionally target civilians.
Under the ceasefire deal, Israel’s military pulled back to a so-called “yellow line,” leaving it in control of 53% of the Gaza Strip. Gaza City, the enclave’s largest urban area, is under Hamas control. Rafah is under Israeli control.
Both Israel and Hamas have accused each other of repeatedly violating the ceasefire, although it is still formally holding.
According to the Gaza Health Ministry, 312 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza by the Israeli military since Oct.11.
TWO TEENS KILLED: Earlier, Israeli forces killed two Palestinian teenagers during an overnight raid on a town near Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, residents said, as violence surges in the territory with a growing number of dead.
Forces shot Sami Ibrahim Mashaikha, 16, and Amr Khaled Al Marboua, 18, in Kfar Aqab and both later died of their wounds, according to the health ministry in the Palestinian Authority that exercises limited self-rule in the West Bank.
The Palestinian WAFA news agency reported that Israeli forces had raided Kfar Aqab overnight, deploying forces to the streets and on top of the town’s buildings before opening fire. Asked for comment, the Israeli military deferred to the Israel Border Police, a unit of Israel’s national police, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Videos widely shared on social media have shown dozens of settlers, often wielding wooden clubs and sometimes guns, attacking Palestinian West Bank communities in recent months.
Israeli forces have killed six Palestinian minors, aged under 18, in the West Bank so far this month, according to a Reuters tally.
SINGAPORE ACTION AGAINST SETTLERS: Singapore will impose financial sanctions on four Israelis and bar them from entering the city-state, its foreign affairs ministry announced on Friday, accusing them of “egregious acts of extreme violence” against Palestinians in the West Bank.
The ministry said actions committed in the West Bank by Meir Mordechai Ettinger, Elisha Yered, Ben-Zion Gopstein and Baruch Marzel were unlawful and had jeopardised the prospects for a two-state solution in Palestine. “As a firm supporter of international law and the two-state solution, Singapore opposes any unilateral attempts to change facts on the ground through acts which are illegal under international law,” it said.
All four individuals have been previously sanctioned by the European Union.
Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan announced in parliament in September that leaders of Israeli settler groups would be sanctioned.
He also chided Israeli politicians who had spoken about annexing parts of the West Bank or Gaza, the two Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories, and said the so-called E1 settlement project would fragment the West Bank.
Apart from imposing sanctions, Balakrishnan said Singapore would also recognise a Palestine state under the right conditions.
Most of the international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal under international law.
The European Union (EU) pressed on Thursday to bolster reform of the Palestinian Authority as part of the plan to end the Gaza war, as Brussels hosted 60 delegations to discuss reconstruction and governance.
The 27-nation bloc, the biggest financial backer of the Palestinians, is looking to play a more prominent role after being left largely on the sidelines of US President Donald Trump’s efforts to end the Israel-Hamas war.
Agencies