Inside Gaza: 16,500 children killed, thousands more maimed
UNICEF's Rosalia Bollen gives a harrowing, firsthand account of the suffering children face in Gaza. In this deeply moving conversation with Riz Khan, she describes children mutilated by airstrikes, starving in tents, and dying due to the collapse of Gaza's healthcare system.
From a blind five-year-old boy who says, 'My eyes went to heaven before I did,' to the staggering death toll, over 16,500 children killed, Bollen shares powerful, on-the-ground testimony from one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises.
Topics covered:
Children living under constant bombardment,
Starvation and famine-level malnutrition,
Gaza's healthcare collapse and child mortality,
The human cost behind the statistics,
And why cynicism is not an option.
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