India, Oct. 23 -- UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa Edouard Beigbeder, in a statement dated Oct. 22, 2026, described multiple incidents in which children were reported killed or injured across the Gaza Strip and called on the Israeli authorities to take action to protect children.
Reported child deaths and injuries
Beigbeder said 14-year-old Mohamed was walking home from a UNICEF-supported learning centre on Oct. 17 in Deir al Balah in the Gaza Strip when he was reported hit in the street by an armed drone strike and killed.
He said that the next day, six-year-old Misk, described as a first-grade student at a UNICEF learning centre, was reported killed by gunfire in al-Maghazi, and later that day 12-year-old T...