<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;">UNICEF on Tuesday said the city of children, Rafah, "must not be invaded," urging the continuation of humanitarian aid flow into Gaza.</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Our worst fear - Gazans' nightmare - appears to be a reality. A reality that those holding power have the ability to prevent," spokesperson James Elder told a UN press briefing in Geneva.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Elder noted that every warning and every "mind-boggling piece of data" on the number of children and mothers killed and of homes and hospitals destroyed" are all ignored.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Underlining that Rafah is a city of children as more than half of the children in Gaza live in Rafah, he said: "This past weekend’s events in Gaza - the continued killing of children, more attacks from the warring parties, and now evacuation orders – yet again expose how parties to this conflict continue to utterly disregard the lives and protection of children and civilians."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"That has to change. Indeed, this is the last chance for this to change," he urged, and added: "Aid must flow. Hostages must be freed. Rafah must not be invaded. And children must no longer be killed."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He reiterated UNICEF's call for cessation of hostilities, saying: "For the children of Rafah, we need a cease-fire, now."&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd/fas</div>