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Poor conditions in Gaza push children into health crisis
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Gaza babies forced to share oxygen masks as Israel blocks gear

UN says Israel blocked incubator transfers from North Gaza, forcing premature babies to share oxygen in overcrowded southern hospitals amid growing crisis.

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
07 October, 2025
Newborn rescued in critical condition after pregnant woman killed in
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MENA
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UNICEF: Gaza babies in incubators at risk as assault intensifies

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
29 September, 2025
The Houthis release abducted Jordanian Lana Shukri Kataw [Getty]
Houthi group
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Yemen's Houthis release abducted Jordanian UNICEF official

The New Arab Staff
11 September, 2025
Shahed Drone Attack Destroys Businesses In Kharkiv
UNICEF
World
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UNICEF warns of fallout from education funding cuts

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
03 September, 2025
Seven-year-old May Abu Arar, whose life is in danger due to severe malnutrition, is receiving treatment at the Patient Friends Association Hospital in Gaza City, Gaza on August 03, 2025
Gaza War
MENA
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Israel kills 28 children every day in its war on Gaza: UNICEF

The New Arab Staff
05 August, 2025
An exhausted, weak and malnourished child is seen along with his mother in Gaza fights for life amid ongoing Israeli attacks at the Abdulaziz er-Rantisi Children's Hospital in Gaza City
Gaza War
MENA
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Gaza running out of special food to save malnourished children

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
25 July, 2025
Unicef logo is seen on Unicef headquarters building in Manhattan, New York, United States of America
Sudan
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Child malnutrition doubles in battleground Sudan state: UNICEF

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
11 July, 2025
A Sudanese man walks past destroyed military vehicles in front of a hospital in Khartoum
Sudan
MENA
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Attack on aid convoy in Sudan's Darfur region kills 5: UN

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
03 June, 2025
Refugees fleeing the conflict in Sudan queue with their jerrycans to queue to collect drinking water from the Doctors Without Borders at the Ourang refugee camp in Adre on December 7, 2023. (Photo by DENIS SASSOU GUEIPEUR/AFP via Getty Images)
Sudan
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UNICEF says artillery fire leaves Sudan hospital patients without water

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
14 May, 2025
SUDAN-CONFLICT-REFUGEES
Sudan civil war
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Sudan's two years of war have 'shattered' children's lives

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
15 April, 2025
Eid al-Fitr in Gaza amid Israeli attacks
Gaza War
MENA
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Over 300 Gaza children killed by Israel in 10 days

The New Arab Staff
01 April, 2025
Syria sees 500,000 children suffering from severe malnutrition [Getty]
Post-Assad Syria
MENA
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Over 500,000 Syria children suffer life-threatening malnutrition

The New Arab Staff
28 March, 2025
Displaced Yemenis receive humanitarian aid provided by the World Food Programme (WFP) in the city of Taiz
Yemen
MENA
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UN says half of Yemen's under-fives acutely malnourished

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
25 March, 2025
Water treatment plant is on the verge of shutting down due to Israel's order to cut electricity flow to Gaza in Deir al Balah, Gaza
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MENA
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UN: 90 percent of Gaza lacks clean water amid Israeli blockade

The New Arab Staff
11 March, 2025
A woman walks with her son next to debris in the southern Lebanese village of al-Taybeh, near the border with Israel, on February 4, 2025
Lebanon
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1 in 4 children in Lebanon out of school due to Israel war

The New Arab Staff
01 March, 2025
A Palestinian girl carries her plastic doll in a destroyed market after Israeli forces stormed the Tulkarm refugee camp in the West Bank. Israeli Finance Minister Smotrich threatened to turn the West Bank into a ruin like the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. There have been attacks by Palestinian militants on settlers in the northern West Bank and attacks by settlers on Palestinian residents and the destruction of their property.
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UNICEF decries soaring violence against children in West Bank

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
14 February, 2025
Sudanese civil war continues
Sudan
MENA
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At least 40 children killed in Sudan over three days: UNICEF

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
06 February, 2025
Battles between the SNA and SDF in Tishreen Dam in the vicinity of Manbij, in the east of Syria's northern Aleppo province, on January 10, 2025
Post-Assad Syria
MENA
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Tensions in northeast Syria rise amid Damascus-SDF negotiations

The New Arab Staff
20 January, 2025
A child and a man wait to collect food at a location set up by a local humanitarian organisation to donate meals and medication to people displaced by the war in Sudan, in Meroe in the country's Northern State, on January 9, 2025. (AFP via Getty)
Sudan
MENA
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Three million Sudan children facing acute malnutrition: UN

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
10 January, 2025
Gaza children
Gaza
MENA
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Over 12,000 Palestinian students killed in Israel's war on Gaza

Nadda Osman
12 November, 2024
Beit Lahia has been utterly devastated by Israeli strikes [Getty]
Gaza War
MENA
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Dozens killed in Gaza’s Beit Lahia as Netanyahu hails Trump win

The New Arab Staff
06 November, 2024