Refugee children

UNICEF warns of severe child deprivation in Lebanon as displacement, economic tolls mount

“Without urgent and sustained action, an entire generation of children and young people risks carrying the scars of this crisis into adulthood,” UNICEF Lebanon Representative Marcoluigi Corsi said. 

Displaced Lebanese children play in the playground of a public school that has been converted into a shelter in the town of Dekwaneh, north of Beirut on March 25, 2026.
 An Afghan refugee man loads a truck with his belongings, as he along with others returns home, after Pakistan gave the last warning to undocumented immigrants to leave, in Jamrud, Pakistan, April 14, 2025.

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 YOUNG PALESTINIANS clash with Israeli soldiers in Jenin, in the West Bank.

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 This drawing by Alla's 8- and 11-year-old daughters on the asphalt says “Against the war, against calamity, let the sun always shine."

Children's artwork captures hope and trauma in war zones worldwide


Jewish member quits U.S. Homeland Security council amid refugee crisis

Elizabeth Holtzman, a one-time New York Democrat, was among four members of the council who stepped down.

Immigrant children, many of whom have been separated from their parents under a new "zero tolerance" policy by the Trump administration, are being housed in tents next to the Mexican border in Tornillo, Texas, U.S. June 18, 2018.

Children of Innocence

The Jerusalem Post

Cubs of the Caliphate: rehabilitating Islamic State's child fighters

While children who have been through war typically draw devastating pictures of the violence they have suffered, few show themselves as the perpetrators.

Mohammad (R), a 13 year-old fighter from the Free Syrian Army, aims his weapon as he runs from snipers loyal to the Syrian regime in Aleppo's Bustan al-Basha district October 29, 2013. Mohammad joined the Free Syrian Army after his father died during clashes with the Syrian regime. The gun he is usi

Why I stand with the asylum seekers

Talk to your congregations; demand that your communities apply whatever pressure they can on the Israeli government to stop this disgrace.

An African migrant holds an Israeli flag after being released from Holot detention centre in Israel's southern Negev desert August 25, 2015.

African migrants and Israelis protest deportations in Jerusalem

Several Israelis attending the protest said it was inhumane to send "the refugees back to the horrors they ran from."

African migrants and Israelis protest deportations in Jerusalem

Il était une fois le Kindertransport

Les opérations de sauvetage de milliers d’enfants juifs des griffes nazies ne se sont pas faites sans traumatismes. Des survivants se souviennent

Mémorial à Londres commémorant le sauvetage d'enfants juifs

Jordan switches on world's largest solar plant in refugee camp

The 15 million euro ($17.50 million) project, funded by the German government, will provide electricity in Zaatari camp for up to 14 hours a day.

The new solar plant at the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, which will benefit about 80,000 Syrian refugees

Israeli doctors save Mongolian baby of Buddhist refugees

The couple, who arrived in Israel with language difficulties and without financial means, gave birth to their daughter at the Red Crescent Hospital in east Jerusalem.

A baby (illustrative)

Syrian girl who tweeted from Aleppo documents horrors in new memoir

Bana Alabed's memoir 'Dear World' gives an account of the Syrian Civil War through the eyes of a child.

Bana Alabed smiles during an interview in Ankara

Lost generation: 500,000 Syrian refugee children still out of school

"A lot of the parents who live in refugee camps, whether in Syria or Lebanon, do not send their children to school after age 12 or 13, but send them to work," says an aid worker in Lebanon.

Syrian refugee children pose as they play near their families' residence at Al Zaatari refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria, January 30, 2016.