"After 466 days of destruction and devastation, this ceasefire announcement brings mixed emotions: anger, hope, grief, relief.
War Child will seize this opportunity to rapidly scale up our assistance to help children recover and give them the opportunity to build a future."
War Child Country Director for the Occupied Palestinian Territory (oPt), Sahar Smoom.
Far too many people have needlessly lost their lives in this conflict, including at least 15,000 children. This ceasefire announcement comes tragically far too late for all of them.
It isn’t just homes, schools, hospitals, and other buildings that need reconstruction, but a generation of children will need their mental health rebuilt to minimise the long-term impacts of the terrible trauma they have endured.
Our incredible team in Gaza have already reached more than one in ten children, but only when the bombing stops can we scale up the work to reach every single child that needs support, as part of War Child’s largest humanitarian operation in our history.
