An Israeli couple sleeps in a public bomb shelter in the southern city of Ashkelon August 4, 2014. REUTERS/Amir Cohen
GENEVA (Reuters) - More than 400 children have been killed in Israel's assault on Gaza, and almost a thousand times as many are traumatised and face an "extraordinarily bleak" future, the top UNICEF official in Gaza said on Tuesday.
Pernille Ironside, head of the field office run by the U.N. children's agency in Gaza, said rebuilding children's lives would be part of a much larger effort to reconstruct the Palestinian enclave once the fighting has stopped for good.
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