It is estimated that 132,000 children under the age of five should be at risk of acute malnutrition by June.
Posted on September 3, 2025
At least 21,000 children have been handicapped in Gaza since the Israel genocidal war against the besieged enclave exploded almost two years ago, said a United Nations Committee.
The United Nations Committee on the Rights of Disabled Persons (CRPD) reported on Wednesday that around 40,500 children had undergone “new wounds related to war” during the war, leaving more than half of them with disabilities.
The malnutrition of children also skyrocketed in Gaza, where full famine has been declared.
According to the IPC system (IPC), it is estimated that 132,000 children under the age of five are lower than the age of five.
By examining the situation in the Palestinian territories, he declared that the orders of forced Israeli forced during the army offensive in Gaza were “often inaccessible” to people with hearing or visual disabilities, “making the evacuation impossible”.
“Reports have also described people with disabilities forced to flee under dangerous and unworthy conditions, as crawl in sand or mud without mobility assistance,” he said.
Meanwhile, the CRPD said that the restrictions, the result of the punitive blockade of Israel, on the humanitarian aid provided to the Gaza Strip had a disproportionate impact by the disabled.
“People with disabilities have been faced with serious disruptions in aid, leaving a lot without food, drinking water or sanitation and dependent on others for survival,” he said.
While the private GHF in the United States and Israel has four distribution points in the territory, the United Nations system which it largely replaced had around 400. Regular mass shootings by Israeli forces at aid points mean that many disabled people cannot access the aid and may be slaughtered by doing.
The loss of mobility helps under the rubble has also prevented people from reaching the relocated help points.
The CRPD said that 83% of people with disabilities had lost their assistance devices, the most unable to allow themselves alternatives such as donkey carts.
He expressed his concern that devices such as wheelchairs, walkers, rods, splints and prostheses were considered “double -use articles” by the Israeli authorities and were therefore not included in assistance expeditions.
The CRPD called for delivery “massive humanitarian aid to disabled people” affected by war, while insisting that all parties had to adopt protective measures for disabled people to prevent “violence, damage, deaths and deprivation of rights”.
The Committee said it was informed of at least 157,114 people with injuries, with more than 25% at the risk of lifetime disabilities, between October 7, 2023 and August 21 of this year.
He said that Israel should adopt specific measures to protect disabled children from attacks and implement evacuation protocols that take into account disabled people.
Israel should ensure that people with disabilities are “authorized to return safely home and are helped to do so,” he added.
