GENEVA (Reuters) -An official of the United Nations' children's agency said on Tuesday it was "inhumane" to expect hundreds of thousands of children to leave Gaza City as camps further south were unsafe, overcrowded and ill-equipped to receive them.

 

"It is inhumane to expect nearly half a million children, battered and traumatised by over 700 days of unrelenting conflict, to flee one hellscape and end up in another," Tess Ingram, a UNICEF spokesperson, told reporters by video link from the sprawling tent camp of Mawasi, Gaza.

 

Conditions there are so desperate that some people who fled Israel's new offensive on famine-struck Gaza City in recent days are heading back towards the falling bombs, they told Reuters.

"People really do have no good option - stay in danger or flee to a place that they also know is dangerous," she said, adding that some children had been killed at the Mawasi camp while collecting water.

 

'Inhumane' to expect Gaza City's children to flee, UN agency say

 

FILE PHOTO: Displaced Palestinians children make their way as they flee amid an Israeli military operation, in Gaza City, September 1, 2025. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa/File Photo© Thomson Reuters

Camps not as safe as being blown up or shot ... got it.

 

UN is so useful