The UN estimates that 373,000 children require direct and specialized psychosocial support (PSS), while all of Gaza's approximately 900,000children have been affected by the war and need some level of psychosocial support. On July 28, UNICEF released a statement entitled "No safe place for children in Gaza." In it, the head of the organization's Gaza field office, Pernille Ironside, declared: "The physical and psychological toll that the violence is having on people is almost indescribable... We see children killed, injured, mutilated and burnt, in addition to being terrified to their core."
