Children should be off limits in war. 

Escalating conflict in the Middle East and wider region has triggered a rapidly expanding crisis, leaving children's lives and rights hanging in the balance.

Many have already paid the heaviest price with their lives. Many more have been ripped from their homes, schools and sense of safety.

More than 100 million children living in countries directly impacted by the escalating violence in the Middle East and wider region are in grave danger of both physical and mental harm — and displacement.

Many children in the region have already endured years of violence, conflict and insecurity and are now being plunged back into fear, facing the risk of death, injury and displacement. All children are now facing the terrifying prospect of an expansive war on a regional scale.

As always, children are paying the heaviest price for a conflict they’ve played no part in.

ALL CHILDREN MUST BE PROTECTED. ALL CHILDREN DESERVE PEACE.