Call to Action for Palestinian Children in the…

Based on the Convention of the Rights of the Child, the UNSC resolutions 2712, 2720, 2728 and 2735, we call for urgent assistance to the children of Gaza and the West Bank.

This Call to Action for Palestinian Children in the West Bank and Gaza has 5 action points:

1. We call on Parties for reaching an immediate ceasefire.

2. We call for the respect of international law, including international human rights law and humanitarian law. We recall the obligations for the parties to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure, such as shelters and schools, and health, electric, water, sanitation facilities, to prevent loss of civilian and children's lives, outbreaks of diseases, and to provide safe spaces and care to the sick and wounded, to those sheltered in public building such as schools, and to ensure the uninterrupted and secure humanitarian access s for delivering of critical and life-saving aid (fuel, cooking gas, food items, medical supplies, dignity and menstrual hygiene kits).

3. Any grave violations against all children, including killing and maiming of children should end. We call for the immediate, safe and unconditional release of all detained children and hostages in particular.

4. We call for safe and unrestricted humanitarian access to and within the Gaza Strip, including in the north, and in the West Bank to reach affected populations wherever they are. All access crossings must be opened. Safe and unhindered movement for humanitarian workers and supplies across the Gaza Strip and in the West Bank must be guaranteed.

5. We pledge to support a scaled-up UN-coordinated and principled humanitarian response to the Palestinian Children in Gaza and the West Bank with a focus in particular on the following areas and with due regard for children with special needs:

• life-saving assistance and services: essential food and non-food items, including specific nutrition products and actions focused on children's water, sanitation and hygiene needs
• health care: the delivery of medicines and emergency medical supplies to hospitals and health facilities, including supplies for new-borns, kits for midwives, kits to treat acute watery diarrhea and provisions of other life-saving medicines.
• mental health and psychological support
• education: revive learning opportunities, create a safe space, training on landmine or other explosive weapons prevention and/or survivor assistance interventions.
• humanitarian cash support for the most vulnerable households to meet their basic needs and the specific needs of their children.
• specific support for unaccompanied Palestinian children who have been separated or lost their parents and are more vulnerable to any kind of abuse and exploitation.