The spokesperson for the United Nations Children's Fund "UNICEF," James Elder, said that Gaza has become a graveyard for thousands of children and a living hell for everyone.

Elder explained in a press briefing he gave from the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, that UNICEF has been frank since the first days of the unprecedented hostilities in Gaza, regarding the need for an immediate ceasefire for humanitarian purposes and the release of kidnapped children, according to what was published on the official website of the United Nations Children's Fund "UNICEF" today, Tuesday.

The UN official said: "Our greatest fears have been realized that the numbers of children being killed, first by the dozens, then by the hundreds, have reached thousands within just two weeks.. The numbers are horrifying, and it has been said that more than 3,450 children have been killed; this number is astonishingly increasing every day."

He continued, "However, the threats faced by children go beyond bombs and mortar shells.. I want to briefly talk about water and trauma.. More than one million children in Gaza are suffering from a water crisis. Gaza's water production capacity represents only 5 percent of its usual daily production today. Meanwhile, the numbers of child deaths - especially infants - due to dehydration pose an increasing threat."

Elder added, "Then comes exposure to trauma. When the fighting stops, future generations will bear the cost that children and their communities are enduring. Before this recent escalation, more than 800,000 children in Gaza - that is three quarters of the total children there - were identified as needing mental health and psychosocial support."

He concluded by saying: "Unless there is a ceasefire and the availability of water and medicine, and the release of kidnapped children, we will drift toward greater atrocities suffered by innocent children."