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The number of children in armed conflict zones are around 250 million. [1] They confront physical and mental harms from war experiences. "Armed conflict" is defined in two ways according to International Humanitarian Law: "1) international armed conflicts, opposing two or more States, 2) non-international armed conflicts, between governmental forces and nongovernmental armed groups, or between ...
Effects of war. The effects of war are widely spread and can be long-term or short-term. [2] Soldiers experience war differently than civilians. Although both suffer in times of war, women and children suffer atrocities in particular. In the past decade, up to two million of those killed in armed conflicts were children. [2]
Describing the impact of war on children's mental health, the Save the Children director of humanitarian policy stated the war had "starved and robbed any sense of safety and security". [32] On 2 February 2024, UNICEF reported that one million children, or nearly every child in Gaza, was in need of mental health support. [33]
According to B'tselem 's calculations, as of 2021, some 2,171 Palestinian children have been killed in the last two decades by Israeli forces, [3][4] and 139 Israeli children have been killed by Palestinian forces. [4] Save the Children has estimated that up to 21,000 children have gone missing from the Gaza Strip between October 2023 to June 2024.
Effect of World War I on children in the United States. Drawing by Marguerite Martyn of two women and a child knitting for the war effort at a St. Louis, Missouri, Red Cross office in 1917. Though the United States was in combat for only a matter of months, the reorganization of society had a great effect on life for children in the United States.
Childhood in war. Childhood in war refers to children who have been affected, impaired or even injured during and in the aftermath of armed conflicts. Wars affect all areas of involved persons' life, including physical and mental-emotional integrity, social relations with the family and the community, as well as housing.
First day of school for children in Haynrode/Germany (1940). German childhood in World War II describes how the Second World War, as well as experiences related to it, [1] directly or indirectly impacted the life of children born in that era. In Germany, these children became known as Kriegskinder (war children), a term that came into use due ...
Military brat is known in U.S. military culture as a term of endearment and respect. [1][2] The term may also connote a military brat's experience of mobile upbringing, [1][2] and may refer to a sense of worldliness. [1][2] Research has shown that many current and former military brats like the term; however, outside of the military world, the ...