"This much needed pause in hostilities is providing children with the chance to sleep without the fear of drones above their heads, airstrikes on nearby buildings or fires breaking out in their tents. Families in Gaza are slowly returning to their neighbourhoods and trying to salvage what they can of their lives from the rubble. But crucially, what they are still not currently getting is full and sustainable access to aid supplies and vital services."
"Children and babies are still struggling with malnutrition, we are seeing increased cases of diarrhoea, scabies and pneumonia in our health clinics. Until these basic needs are met, Palestinians cannot begin to think about rebuilding Gaza. Since the pause in hostilities began, we know some UN agencies and international organisations have been able to increase the entry of humanitarian supplies, but this has been nowhere near the scale that we need to deliver consistently for children."
A pause in hostilities is allowing children to sleep without fear of drones, airstrikes, or fires, and enabling families to return to neighbourhoods to salvage belongings from rubble. Full and sustainable access to aid supplies and vital services remains absent. Fundamental basic rights for children in the occupied Palestinian territory have been demanded since 1953. The humanitarian situation remains catastrophic, with children suffering malnutrition and clinics seeing increased diarrhoea, scabies and pneumonia. Some UN and international organisations have increased supply entries but not at required scale. Save the Children supplies have been repeatedly denied entry since early March. Gaza requires at least 600 aid trucks, 50 fuel tankers and cooking gas, plus unrestricted deliveries of food, water, hygiene kits, fuel and other lifesaving items.
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