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The UN children's agency (Unicef) has reiterated its call for an urgent ceasefire to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe.

James Elder is a spokesperson for Unicef and currently at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip. He told Newsday an Israeli missile had just landed 50 metres from the facility. It comes after a temporary ceasefire that lasted seven days ended.

He said: 鈥淚鈥檓 looking right now at a little girl, Shaimaa, who lost her right leg and right arm. Next to her is a little boy, Ahmed, he鈥檚 three. He lost his right foot; he just holds on to a football. If I walk now just out of their little ward, I just see hundreds of people, just women and children鈥�There鈥檚 a noticeable change. You can see the fear in people鈥�that anxiety that may have dissipated over the last few days is back in force for a traumatised, petrified people who have鈥�nowhere safe to go鈥�We are at the starting point from a nightmare鈥�to think now the attacks have started again is catastrophic for the people of Gaza.鈥�

(Picture: Shows a wounded Palestinian child at Nasser hospital, in Khan Younis. Credit: Mohammed Salem / Reuters.)

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