UNITED NATIONS, November 15. /TASS/. The Gaza Strip is home to more than one million children, and many of them went missing or became trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said.

"Inside the Strip, there is nowhere safe for Gaza’s one million children to turn," she said. "In Gaza, more than 4,600 children have reportedly been killed, with nearly 9,000 reportedly injured,"

"Many children are missing and believed buried under the rubble of collapsed buildings and homes," the UNICEF chief said in a statement.

"The intermittent opening of Gaza’s border crossings to shipments of humanitarian supplies is insufficient to meet the skyrocketing needs. And with winter around the corner, the need for fuel could become even more acute," Russell added.

According to UNECEF, more than 400 children are killed or wounded in the Gaza Strip every day. Gaza, according to a UNICEF official, is a graveyard for children.

The situation in the Middle East sharply escalated following an incursion of Hamas militants from the Gaza Strip into Israel on October 7, accompanied by killings of residents of Israeli settlements near the border and taking more than 200 hostages, including children, women and elderly people. Hamas regards the attack as a response to Israeli actions against the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Jerusalem's Temple Mount. Israel has declared a complete siege of the Gaza Strip and has started delivering strikes on that area and parts of Lebanon and Syria. Clashes are also taking place in the West Bank.