10,000 children in the Gaza Strip have had no legal existence since October 2023

Published at: 18/07/2025 09:47 AM

On Thursday, the Office of the United Nations Organization for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that approximately 10,000 children in the Gaza Strip have been without legal existence since October 2023, exposing them to the risk of human trafficking and making it difficult for them to access basic rights. Without official documents, these children are invisible to the law.

After the destruction carried out by the Zionist entity, Israeli attacks have paralyzed the capacity to register births in Gaza. The destruction of hospitals, the inoperability of government offices and the massive displacement of the population prevent families from registering their newborns.

The UN office details that infants could grow up without any official recognition of their existence, which aggravates the fragility of an already devastated society.

Meanwhile, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) denounced Tel Aviv's repeated rejections of its missions, which hinders the family reunification of minors and aggravates their psychological suffering.

Catherine Russell, director general of UNICEF, revealed that in the past 21 months, more than 17,000 children were killed and 33,000 injured in Gaza. In this sense, an average of 28 children are killed every day, a figure equivalent to that of an entire school classroom

Mazo News Team