UN officials told The Jerusalem Post that all syringes and vaccines needed for the vaccination campaign have now been delivered to Gaza.
UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, announced on Thursday that it successfully conducted a first round of routine catch-up vaccination campaign in Gaza, reaching more than 13,700 children across the Gaza Strip.
These children missed out on their routine vaccination during the last two years because of the October 7 massacre and the war that followed.
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UN officials told The Jerusalem Post that all syringes and vaccines needed for the vaccination campaign have now been delivered to Gaza, adding that the US's new Civil Military Coordination Center (CMCC) in Kiryat Gat played a key role in ensuring access and safe delivery of supplies needed.
US troops at the US Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) at Kiryat Gat. (credit: CHEN SCHIMMEL)
Work is currently underway to conduct the second and third rounds of vaccination campaign in Gaza with the intention to reach every child who missed out due to the war.
UNICEF officials tell the Post they work to scale up their operations in Gaza including detection, prevention and treatment of malnutrition among children and access to clean water and sanitation.
“When you get asked to be a part of the best of the best, you say yes,” the seemingly ageless Kidman says of her role of celebrity fav Clé de Peau Beauté
When my bestie, a longtime makeup artist, began to gush recently about the “dewy glow,” the “pure radiance,” of her new favorite foundation, I was a little perplexed. She is not a woman ordinarily given to exclaiming superlatives, nor is she someone who pushes trendy, expensive products, so I paid attention.
The foundation, she revealed, was from the uber luxury skincare line Clé de Peau Beauté, which has long been acclaimed for its scientific approach to radiance. The brand’s name translates from the French as “the key to skin’s beauty.” And this Japanese line from Shiseido has invested in the research and the ingredients to back up their claim since 1982, which is why it has become a sought-after item by Hollywood industry insiders.
So much so that Clé de Peau Beauté has announced a new global ambassador to represent the brand – and the foundation that everyone is talking about, the one with a tony nearly $300 price tag that we have learned is worth every penny – Nicole Kidman.
“I have dry skin that’s slightly reddish and can be sensitized easily,” Kidman explained at a recent event where she announced her partnership with Clé de Peau Beauté. Noriko Watanabe, Kidman’s Japanese makeup artist, turned the versatile actor onto the luxury line beloved in Japan, and with that, the seemingly ageless actor was a new devotee every bit as excited about the foundation as my friend back on the East Coast.
“It was kind of like kismet,” Kidman said of he beauty line. “I love that the quality is so high. You’re dealing with things that have been tested and scientifically proven – and they’re just exquisite. It’s the best of the best. When you get asked to be part of the best of the best, you say yes.”
Nicole Kidman is a devotee to La Crème by Clé de Peau Beauté, and has now become the Japanese luxury skincare and makeup line’s global ambassador Credit: Denise Kreft
The line has also been involved in philanthropy geared toward empowering women and girls through initiatives like the Clé de Peau Beauté Power of Radiance Awards and through its ongoing global partnership with UNICEF. In May, Clé de Peau Beauté concealer was chosen for a Los Angeles Best of Beauty Award.
TOMORROW X TOGETHER, after releasing minisode 3: TOMORROW and The Star Chapter: TOGETHER, touring ACT: TOMORROW, and having the team motto, “Let’s be together, tomorrow!,” have decided they just don’t reference their name often enough…
Jokes aside, TXT have done MOA proud once again, this time by partnering with UNICEF. Together, they have announced the campaign, TOGETHER FOR TOMORROW, aimed at supporting the mental health and well-being of global youth.
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Considering TXT’s storytelling and how their musical journey so far has focused on the trials of growing up, this is such a lovely alignment. TXT and UNICEF seem to have found the most organic crossover, and we love that this partnership feels so authentic. Moreover, TXT’s label, BIGHIT MUSIC, has committed to funding $1.4 million for programs and awareness campaigns.
During their ACT: TOMORROW U.S. Tour, TXT made a pit stop at the UNICEF Headquarters in New York. Adding to MOA’s pride, TXT’s leader, Soobin, gave a very impressive and heartfelt speech. Once again, he reiterated how central the struggles of today’s youth and the idea of a brighter “tomorrow” are in TXT’s work.
Through our musical journey, we have learned that expressing emotion is a sign of strength. Now, with our campaign with UNICEF, we want to help create a safe and inclusive space for youth to freely express their emotions.
Soobin at UNICEF HQ
Adding to their authenticity, TXT then sat down for a Q&A with UNICEF youth leaders. This relaxed, unrehearsed setting goes to show just how natural this partnered campaign feels! We can’t wait to see how TOGETHER FOR TOMORROW continues to grow, and we’ll be supporting TXT and UNICEF all the way.
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What are your thoughts on TXT’s partnership with UNICEF? How would you love to see TOGETHER FOR TOMORROW evolve? Let us know on Twitter @TheHoneyPOP! Or, if you’d rather, you can also find us on Facebook and Instagram!
Jerusalem — Indirect peace talks between Israel and Hamas aimed at ending the war in Gaza and freeing the remaining Israeli hostages resumed Wednesday in Egypt. President Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner were expected to arrive in Egypt on Wednesday to join the conversations, a source familiar with the matter told CBS News.
The war was sparked by the Hamas-led, Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack, in which around 1,200 people were killed and 251 others taken as hostages. Israeli officials believe 48 of those people remain captive, though only 20 are believed to still be alive.
Since that day, the Gaza Strip’s Hamas-run Ministry of Health says Israel’s retaliatory war has killed more than 67,000 Palestinians. Israel disputes that figure but provides no estimate of its own, and the United Nations considers the health ministry’s count the most reliable information available, as Israel has barred foreign journalists from operating independently in Gaza.
Ricardo Pires, a spokesman for the United Nations children’s charity UNICEF, said this week that what he calls Israel’s “disproportionate response” in Gaza has killed or maimed at least 61,000 children since the war started.
UNICEF and the global charity Save the Children, which cited data compiled by the Hamas-run Gaza Government Media Office, say that on average, a child dies every hour in Gaza — or “a classroom of children” per day, as UNICEF put it.
The body of a Palestinian killed in an Israeli army attack on the Yafa School, where displaced people had taken shelter, is brought to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, in an April 23, 2025 file photo.
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Since the war started, Save the Children says at least 20,000 kids have been killed in total – amounting to nearly a third of all Palestinians believed to have died in the war.
UNICEF spokesman James Elder, told CBS News that when he visited one of Gaza’s beleaguered hospitals this week, “the first thing I saw was four children who had all been shot by quadcopters [military drones], then I went into a hallway and it was wall-to-wall children across all the corridors.”
“There was a boy bleeding out on the floor who had apparently been there for five hours, then he was put on a stretcher only for another child to be put in his place,” Elder told CBS News. “Then I watched a little girl die. That’s half an hour here in Gaza.”
The staggering death toll does not reflect the thousands more children who have been maimed and injured, or those who have lost one or both parents during the war.
At a makeshift camp for Palestinian orphans in the southern city of Khan Younis, CBS News’ team in Gaza saw some of the young faces behind the grim statistics.
Deena Al-Za’arab holds her younger sister at a makeshift camp for Palestinians orphaned by the Israel-Hamas war, in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, Oct. 7, 2025.
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“I wish the war were just a dream I’d wake up from and see my parents next to me,” said 14-year-old Deena Al-Za’arab, who lost both of her parents.
“I have to keep it together for the sake of my siblings,” she added, “because now I must raise them.”
Many of the children at the camp now spend their days doing the work of adults.
Arat Awqal, who is just 10, promised her father she’d be a doctor before he died, but she now focuses on taking care of her younger sister.
“I just want to go back to how it used to be,” she told CBS News. “Whenever we heard the sound of missiles my father would hold us, but now he’s gone, and we are always scared.”
Arat Awqal, 10, is seen caring for her younger sister at a makeshift camp for Palestinians orphaned by the Israel-Hamas war, in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, Oct. 7, 2025.
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UNICEF says one in five children in Gaza is acutely malnourished, and Elder stressed that the trauma being inflicted on the youngest is not just physical.
“The kids not only lost loved ones — it’s not just about just having your mother killed, it’s about watching your mother die, then add that level of trauma to being displaced — and we talk of displacement, it sounds like a neutral or abstract term. It’s not. It’s violent. It’s repetitious, and it also increases trauma.”
The U.N. estimates that about 90% of Gaza’s population, some 1.9 million people, have been forcibly displaced during the war, many of them multiple times as the focus of Israel’s military operations has shifted. Most recently, the Israel Defense Forces ordered everyone to leave Gaza City, the enclave’s biggest population center, and to move further south, to areas such as Khan Younis.
It’s led to another mass exodus, which aid workers say has increased the suffering in the region and made it harder to help those showing up, often with nothing.
“There have been several hundred thousands of people who have moved from the north recently, in the last few weeks,” Olga Cherevko, a spokesperson for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, told CBS News’ Haley Ott on Wednesday.
“The situation was already very crowded,” she said, speaking on the phone from central Gaza. “They are now even more so. You can see a lot of people living on the side of the road, pitching tents on the sides of the roads … There are many people who fled on foot and, of course, were not able to bring anything with them, and this creates extremely difficult conditions in terms of hygiene, sanitation and these kinds of things.”
Gazal Basam, 12, holds a photo of her father in a makeshift camp for Palestinians orphaned by the Israel-Hamas war, in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, Oct. 7, 2025.
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At the camp for the orphans — all of them among the displaced — 12-year-old Gazal Basam told CBS News she felt “such pain in my heart after losing my dad.”
“I want to live like I did before the war,” she said. “But I know life will never be the same again.”.
“I feel such pain in my heart after losing my dad,” said 12-year-old Gazal Basam at the camp for orphans. “I want to live like I did before the war, but I know life will never be the same again.”
Debora Patta is a CBS News senior foreign correspondent based in Johannesburg. Since joining CBS News in 2013, she has reported on major stories across Africa, the Middle East and Europe. Edward R. Murrow and Scripps Howard awards are among the many accolades Patta has received for her work.
Orlando Bloom made a surprise trip to Kyiv, Ukraine over the weekend.
The actor, who was last in the country in 2016, visited a children’s center and met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as part of his work as a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF, the United Nations children’s organization. Bloom shared a carousel of images of himself playing with a few of the kids on his Instagram account on Sunday, writing, “I would have never expected the war to have escalated throughout the country since I was there. But today I was fortunate to hear children’s laughter at a @UNICEF supported Spilno center, a safe, warm and nurturing space for children to play, learn and receive psychosocial support. Spilno means ‘together’ in Ukrainian and there are over 180 of these centers here. The one I visited today was built deep down in the metro to ensure their safety. For a few hours every day, parents can drop off their young children and give them a sense of normalcy to play games and just be kids. There was also lots of art supplies and craft materials, which allows them to creatively express themselves, away from the pressures of growing up in a war zone. Children in Ukraine need their childhoods back.”
President Zelenskyy also shared a video of himself with the Pirates of the Caribbean star on Instagram. He wrote in the caption, “The war is destroying the childhood of Ukrainian children. Thousands of schools in Ukraine have been damaged or completely destroyed. Almost 2.7 million Ukrainian schoolchildren are forced to study online or in a mixed format. About 1.5 million Ukrainian boys and girls are at risk of developing depression, anxiety and other psychological problems. We all know what this aggression has brought and how full-scale the world’s efforts must be to stop it, to rebuild Ukraine after the war.” He concluded, “During the meeting, we discussed humanitarian aid projects, issues of reconstruction focused specifically on the interests of children. @unicef and our teams will work in several directions, bring victory closer and return a happy childhood to Ukrainian children.”
And prior to arriving in Ukraine, Bloom also made another stop on his trip, visiting the Czech Republic to meet with President Petr Pavel. On Friday, the president shared on Instagram that he had “met with the UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom. We talked about the impact of the war in Ukraine on Ukrainian children.” Pavel went on to urge the actor to “please keep doing the important work you are doing in highlighting the terrible war atrocities committed against Ukrainian children by the Russian occupiers.”
The United Nations children’s agency, UNICEF, said it remains deeply concerned by reports of children being killed, injured, and detained in Iran, it said in a statement on Friday, adding that the reported deaths of children at anti-government protests “must stop.”
An “estimated 50 children have reportedly lost their lives in the public unrest in Iran,” UNICEF said in the statement.
This comes as the unrest in Iran has continued for more than two months, and amid increasing calls from protesters and activists online to UNICEF, Amnesty International and other human rights organizations to take action on human rights violations and crimes against children taking plane in Iran.
Many tell CNN that they feel their voices have not been heard. “They just say, hey, Islamic Republic, what are you doing is bad,” one protester in Iran told CNN. “Yes, everybody knows it’s bad. Three-year-old children know it’s bad, but we need actual action. Do something. I don’t know. I believe they know better than us what they can do.”
“In Iran, UNICEF remains deeply concerned by reports of children being killed, injured, and detained,” the statement read, citing the death of a young boy named Kian Pirfalak, one of seven people killed during Wednesday’s protests in the southwestern city of Izeh. “This is terrifying and must stop,” the organization added.
UNICEF reported Pirfalak’s age as 10-years-old. Iranian state media has reported his age as nine.
The child was traveling in a car on Wednesday with his family when he was shot dead and his father injured by gunfire, his mother told state media in an interview with Tasnim Friday.
According to Iran’s state-aligned news agency ISNA, protesters set a seminary on fire around the same time as people were shot and killed in Izeh in what state media outlets are calling a “terror attack.”
Activists are accusing the Iranian regime of killing Kian and others in Izeh.
The Islamic Republic is facing one of the biggest and unprecedented shows of dissent in recent history following the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman detained by the morality police allegedly for not wearing her hijab properly.
At least 378 people have been killed since demonstrations began, according to an Iranian human rights group, as the country’s Supreme Leader issued a warning that the protest movement is “doomed to failure.”
The organization Iran Human Rights published the estimated death toll Saturday, adding that it includes 47 children killed by security forces.
CNN cannot independently verify arrest figures, death tolls, and many of the accounts of those killed due to the Iranian government’s suppression of independent media, and internet shutdowns which decrease transparency in reporting on the ground. Nor can media directly access the government for their account on such cases, unless there is reporting on state media, the mouthpiece of the government.
Video shared by activist group 1500 Tasvir and others showed a large crowd gathered for Pirfalak funeral in his hometown in Izeh Friday.
Surrounded by mourners, his mother Zeynab Molaeirad is heard singing a children’s song, replacing the lyrics with words against Ayatollah Khamenei and the regime. She then reveals new details about the fatal incident, according to a video shared on social media.
“Hear it from my mouth what really happened to Kian,” she told the crowd, “So the regime doesn’t lie and say it was a terrorist.”
Molaeirad, who was traveling with her family in their car, said people on the street yelled at the vehicle to turn back and that her son told his father not to worry.
“Kian said: ‘Baba trust the police for once and turn around, they are looking out for us,’” she said.
His father made a U-turn and drove towards the police, his mother said. But “because the car windows were rolled up, the police thought we may have wanted to shoot at them,” she said.
“They opened a barrage of fire on the car.”
Kian’s mother also posted a photo with her son in her Instagram post. “My broken flower. Curse on the Islamic Republic,” she wrote.
Human rights groups have accused Iranian authorities of scaring victims’ families to silence. Iranian authorities are “systematically harassing and intimidating victims’ families to hide the truth” of their deaths, as Amnesty International’s Heba Morayef said in a recent report.
The United Nations on Friday said it was “deeply worried about growing violence related to the ongoing popular protests in Iran,” said deputy spokesman for the UN Secretary-General Farhan Haq.
“We condemn all incidents that have resulted in death or serious injury, including the shooting in the city of Izeh on 16 November 2022. We are also concerned about the reported issuance of death sentences against five unnamed individuals in the context of the latest protests,” Haq said.
Haq urged Iranian authorities to respect international human rights law and avoid the use of excessive force against peaceful protesters.
Despite the UN’s condemnation, Iranians have been highly critical of the global organization and its agencies, saying the its words are not enough and that there is a lack of action against human rights violations taking place in Iran.
Stories like Parfalik’s “have led Iranians inside and outside the country to really be demanding justice asking what UNICEF is doing on the ground to stop this,” said Iranian American human rights lawyer Gissou Nia said in an interview with CNN’s Isa Soares Friday.
Nia, who is also director of the Strategic Litigation Project at the Atlantic Council went on to say that the UN Human Rights Council is meeting in Geneva on Thursday in a special session to address “the deteriorating human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
“The outcome of that special session will likely be an investigative mechanism or some kind of independent body that can collect, preserve and analyze evidence of what’s happening here for accountability purposes,” Nia said.
“What would be absolutely shameful is if that 47-member body votes no” to creating such a mechanism, she added.
