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Somalia’s aid cuts are closing health facilities, worsening child malnutrition and deepening the humanitarian crisis amid severe drought.
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Somalia children hit hard by aid cuts: UNICEF says

Somalia’s aid cuts are closing health facilities, worsening child malnutrition and deepening the humanitarian crisis amid severe drought.

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
21 August, 2026
Women and children queue to receive free food being distributed in al-Mohayra camp for displaced people, near the city of El Obeid in the southern Kordofan region, on 29 June 2026. [Getty]
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More than 300 children killed in Sudan war in 6 months: UNICEF

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
06 July, 2026
Displaced Palestinians, including children, form crowded queues at a food distribution point in the Nasr neighborhood, west of Gaza City, Palestine, on June 14, 2026
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Gaza 'ceasefire' is a 'deadly illusion': UNICEF

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
19 June, 2026
Further Displacement In South Lebanon As Israel, Hezbollah Fight
Lebanon-Israel conflict
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Israel kills more than 200 children in Lebanon since March

Louay Faour
16 May, 2026
A woman and a child cross a street as Israeli security forces patrol during a military raid in the Qalandia refugee camp
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Palestinian children shot, stabbed in W. Bank by Israelis: UN

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
12 May, 2026
A view of damage after the Israeli army launched an attack on a water truck in the Bureij Camp in the central Gaza Strip on the second day of Eid al-Adha
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Israeli fire kills two Gaza water truck drivers

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
18 April, 2026
Children from El-Fasher rest outside their tent at a camp for displaced Sudanese people in the northern town of Al-Dabba on November 13, 2025. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)
Sudan war
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UN warns clock ticking for Sudan's children

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
10 February, 2026
UNICEF launches new vaccination campaign for children in Gaza
Gaza War
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Over 100 children killed in Gaza since ceasefire, UNICEF says

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
13 January, 2026
PALESTINIAN-ISRAEL-GENOCIDE
Gaza genocide
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Two children killed per day by Israel in Gaza: UNICEF

The New Arab Staff
22 November, 2025
Palestinian children receive treatment at es-Seraya Sahra Hospital as the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), in collaboration with the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, has launched a new vaccination campaign for children in Gaza City, Gaza on November 9, 2025
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UNICEF: Israel blocks Gaza vaccine syringes

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
11 November, 2025
Poor conditions in Gaza push children into health crisis
Gaza War
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Gaza babies forced to share oxygen masks as Israel blocks gear

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
07 October, 2025
Newborn rescued in critical condition after pregnant woman killed in
Gaza War
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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]
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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Over 300 Gaza children killed by Israel in 10 days

The New Arab Staff
01 April, 2025