THOUSANDS OF KIDS MISSING IN RUBBLE

UNICEF warns of scale of deaths as Israel raids kill dozens more in 24 hours

- CHRIS HUGHES

THOUSANDS of Palestinian children lie dead beneath destroyed homes in Gaza after months of deadly Israeli raids, UNICEF has claimed.

It came as dozens of people were killed in the latest airstrikes on the region over a 24-hour period.

UN Palestine ambassador Riyad Mansour claimed 16,000 Gaza children have now died since the October 7 Hamas attack, more than the global child death toll over the past four years.

UNICEF's deputy director Ted Chaiban warned kids still endure "incomprehensible suffering" in Gaza amid a "staggering" scale of death and destruction there.

He added: "The bodies of thousands of missing children remain buried under rubble."

And Mr Chaiban said the number of starving kids is growing as relief organisations struggle to get aid to Gaza due to various obstacles.