wounded child, no surviving family

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"Wounded child, no surviving family" (WCNSF) is a medical and humanitarian crisis term which appeared during the humanitarian crisis in Gaza as a result of the outbreak of the Gaza war in 2023.{{Cite news |date=2023-12-04 |title='Wounded child, no surviving family': The pain of Gaza’s orphans |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67614139 |access-date=2024-07-22 |language=en-GB}}{{Cite news |date=2023-12-05 |title=Inside Gaza's overwhelmed hospital system, doctors have coined a new term for wounded children arriving alone |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-06/inside-gaza-a-devastating-new-term-has-emerged-wcnsf/103161184 |access-date=2024-07-22 |work=ABC News |language=en-AU}}{{Cite web |last=Ali |first=Soraya |date=2024-04-20 |title=Gaza hospitals coin WCNSF acronym: Wounded child, no surviving family |url=https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-04-20/gaza-hospitals-coin-wcnsf-acronym-wounded-child-no-surviving-family.html |access-date=2024-07-22 |website=EL PAÍS English |language=en-us}}{{Cite news |date=2023-11-07 |title=Gaza coins a new acronym: WCNSF - Wounded Child No Surviving Family |url=https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231107-gaza-coins-a-new-acronym-wcnsf-wounded-child-no-surviving-family/ |work=Middle East Monitor}}{{Cite news |date=2023-10-17 |title=In Gaza, wounded children with no surviving family |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67121414 |access-date=2024-07-22 |language=en-GB}} By March 2024, it was estimated that 17,000 children were part of this category.{{Cite web |last=Grim |first=Ryan |date=2024-03-02 |title=WCNSF: The Most Haunting Acronym the World Has Produced |url=https://theintercept.com/2024/03/02/gaza-flour-massacre-propaganda/ |url-access=registration |access-date=2024-07-22 |website=The Intercept |language=en-US}} The term was first reported by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in November 2023.{{Cite web |title=Why the US must support an immediate ceasefire in Gaza |url=https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/why-us-must-support-immediate-ceasefire-gaza |access-date=2025-05-19 |website=Doctors Without Borders |language=en}}