PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The number of children displaced by violence in Haiti has nearly doubled to 680,000, according to a new UNICEF report released Wednesday that warns minors are increasingly facing hunger, violence and recruitment by armed groups in the Caribbean nation.

Overall, around 6 million Haitians — half the country’s population — need humanitarian assistance, including more than 3.3 million children, UNICEF said.

“Without decisive action, the future of an entire generation is at stake,” the report stated.

Gang violence has displaced a record 1.3 million Haitians in recent years, with many cramming into makeshift shelters after their communities were razed.

The number of such shelters has doubled countrywide to 246 in the first six months of the year, according to the repo

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