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Children are not responsible for war, but they pay the highest price
Months of intensive bombardment have destroyed homes and neighborhoods in the Gaza Strip, leaving hundreds of thousands of people homeless and on the brink of famine.
Gaza's children face dwindling access to medical care and essential supplies, a lack of safe water and sanitation, physical injuries, and the trauma of losing family members and the comforts of home. Here, they share their stories of pain and loss, and their hopes for the future.
" I miss my school. I miss studying. I miss all the details of my life before the war." — Maha, 11
Maha, 11, sits on the rubble of a house in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip on Jan. 8, 2024. “ I wish the war would end soon. I want to go back to my school, I miss my teachers and my friends,” she said.
"Whenever I hear the loud explosions, I rush to my mom and cry." — Salah, 6
Forced to evacuate their home, 6-year-old twin brothers Salah and Ameer sleep on the floor of a tent in a shelter for internally displaced persons in Rafah with their parents, 10-year-old brother, Mohammed, and sisters Dalia, 9, and Maria, 4.
Mohammed has been battling cancer since he was 3 months old. "I want to return home desperately and play with all my toys," he said.
“My family was killed, and my leg was amputated." — Razan, 11
When the house next door was bombed, 11-year-old Razan's left leg was seriously injured. "We were waiting for a taxi to evacuate us from our neighborhood, [when] suddenly an explosion occurred, and I woke up to find myself in the hospital," she said. The explosion in al Zaytoon, Gaza City, killed her mother, father and three brothers. Without access to the appropriate treatment, doctors were forced to amputate her leg.
Razan was hospitalized first at Al-Shifa Hospital, then forced to move to Deir Al-Balah and then to a tent in Rafah. “Becoming an orphan has turned my life upside-down,” she said. ”I wish that this war reaches an end soon, and I could get good treatment that would help me live my life as normal as it can be again.”
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