UNICEF reported on 28 August 2026 that at least four children had been killed and many others injured in the Gaza Strip over the previous five days. According to the agency, those killed included two boys aged two and four in separate strikes, a 10-year-old girl hit by ground fire inside her tent, and a 16-year-old boy who died from injuries sustained in an earlier strike.

In the same statement, UNICEF said a warehouse holding more than US$770,000 worth of its nutrition supplies was destroyed by a nearby strike on 25 August. The supplies were intended for more than 40,500 vulnerable children aged 6 to 23 months and 4,900 pregnant and breastfeeding women. It added that a UNICEF-supported water well and desalination facility in the Deir Al Balah area was severely damaged on 24 August, affecting more than 4,000 people, including around 2,000 children. Emergency water trucking is being provided.

UNICEF Regional Director Edouard Beigbeder said the destruction of supplies and services was deepening the suffering of children and families. The agency cited figures showing 70 per cent of Gaza’s water and sanitation infrastructure damaged and 63 per cent of people unable to access even six litres of drinking water per person per day. UNICEF called for respect for international humanitarian and human rights law and for rapid, safe and unimpeded humanitarian access.