More than 13,800 children have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war, the UN’s children’s fund has said.

Catherine Russell, Unicef’s executive director, warned that “thousands have been injured and thousands more are on the brink of famine”, in a statement following a trip to the enclave.

It follows reports that one child dies in Gaza “every ten minutes”, according to the UN’s Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women).

UN Women said 10,000 women have been killed in Gaza since the war began, with 6,000 of them leaving behind 19,000 orphaned children.

Tess Ingram, a Unicef communication specialist, visited the Gaza Strip recently and said that she was struck by the number of wounded children she saw.

“Not just in the hospitals, but on the streets, in their makeshift shelters, going about their now permanently altered lives,” she told a news conference in Geneva on Tuesday.

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