Around 17,000 Palestinian children and young people are living in the Gaza Strip without their parents or siblings, the UN children’s aid organization UNICEF said on Friday. Israel has been bombarding the coastal strip in a bid to root out the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, which governs Gaza and launched coordinated attacks on Israel on October 7, in which more than 1,200 people were killed. The number of people killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of Israel’s response to the attacks has now risen to 27,131, the Gaza health authority said on Friday. The majority of the dead are women, …