“Drones are changing the reality of this conflict for children."

By Save the Children UK | Updated 17 September 2026 Save the Children UK, Imperial College London and Archewell Philanthropies are strengthening their partnership to expand support for children recovering from life-changing blast injuries, including access to advanced prosthetics, rehabilitation and long-term care. The renewed commitment was marked at a special event attended by Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex, who highlighted the urgent need to support children injured in conflict.

Save the Children, Imperial College London and Archewell Philanthropies commit to strengthening partnership to support child amputees with the latest prosthetic technology and long-term rehabilitation. New Save the Children research finds that more than five children every day were killed or injured by landmines and UXO between 2020 and 2025. The analysis shows growing use of drones and AI-enabled warfare is exposing children to new threats and disrupting schools, healthcare and humanitarian aid.

At least 28 children have been referred to Save the Children for lifesaving medical care due to conflict-related injuries. At least 85,000 people have fled their homes since July, with numbers increasing daily as fighting intensifies.

Today’s announcement from the Foreign Secretary, including banning trade with Israeli settlements in the West Bank, is welcome and represents a decisive shift in the UK Government’s approach to the occupied Palestinian territory. This must be the beginning – not the end – of action to better protect Palestinian children.

Save the Children is reporting a significant increase in cases of child malnutrition in Sheikan locality, with nutrition centres seeing substantial increases in new inpatients.

July saw the highest number of child casualties in Ukraine in more than four years with the number of children killed or injured totalling 183, Save the Children said.

For more than two and a half years, Palestinian children have endured a level of violence, deprivation and displacement that no child should ever experience.

The latest United Nations Annual Report of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict which shows the number of children killed in conflict soared in 2025 with the increased use of high-tech explosive weapons driving the trend.

As the World Cup kicks off, meet the children finding friendship, freedom and hope through football - with support from Save the Children and the Arsenal Foundation.

Ukraine is the most heavily mined country in the world. Meet Chivas - the six-year-old German Spitz teaching thousands of children in Kharkiv how to stay safe.

British Sudanese comedian and writer Ola Labib reflects on three years of conflict in Sudan - the family members lost, the children paying the price, and why the world cannot look away.

Emergency surgery is only the beginning. For children injured in conflict, the road to recovery is long, complex and often impossible to navigate alone. Here's what they really need - and what Save the Children is doing about it.

Bombs and explosions don't just injure children in the moment - they change the course of their entire lives. Here's what the reality looks like, and what Save the Children is doing about it.

More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza since October 2023, and thousands more are living with life-changing injuries. Here's what Save the Children is doing on the ground - and how you can help.

When Chouchou was one year old, she lost her leg in conflict. For years, she stayed home while other children walked to school. Then a teacher changed everything. Read her story.

Learn how the UK Government can help Sudan, and the children and families who live there, through the violent conflict which broke out in the country in April 2023.

"Many children whose experiences should be shaping this report will never have their voices heard. Others survived, and their memories, pain, and hopes for recovery help speak for thousands more across the globe."

Shurouq, 31, is a Save the Children staff member in Gaza. Since October 2023, she has been displaced eight times after losing her husband in the first weeks of the war. In September 2025, under relentless Israeli bombardment, she left her home in Gaza City with Karmel*, her 3-year-old daughter. In this account, she tells us about the impact of two years of relentless violence and multiple displacements on her and her daughter