More grave violations against children were committed in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel than anywhere else in the world last year, according to a UN report due to be published this week.The report on children and armed conflict, which has been seen by the Guardian, verified more cases of war crimes against children in the...
Palestinian children suffering massive trauma, both physical and emotional as war drags on. Homes and schools destroyed, families killed, no hope… Is this what we’ve become? #Gaza#IsraelHamasWar#Palestine#War#Children#WarCrimes
"'It’s a girl,' the nurse said, softly. My mother smiled big, then nodded in silence. That was the first sentence of a book that describes my undoing. That was the first story someone else told for me."
A Palestinian girl carries a young child at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, after they were both wounded in the Israeli bombardment of a residential building in the Bureij refugee camp late on Tuesday [Saher Alghorra/AP Photo]
How to calm a one-year-old and a two-year-old and reassure them that they're safe when you yourself are terrified?
How to look into your children's eyes when you can't keep them safe, sound and healthy?
Like every day, in our tent , we wake up, we sleep, we eat, we get sick, we check in on our relatives .. all amid the sounds of bombs, the smell and the news of death.
But today, it was very near. We fear we're next.
Scarlett Wong, a clinical psychologist for Doctors Without Borders, or Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), travelled to Gaza in March.
Part of her role was to locate and support 17,000 unaccompanied children, including "child heads of households" — the term given to young children who had to look after their siblings.
Gaza’s Government Media Office warns that more than 3,500 children under the age of five are at risk of dying due to shortages of food, nutritional supplements and vaccinations.
These children are experiencing severe malnutrition, harming their physical development and making them vulnerable to infectious diseases.
Palestinian children in Khan Yunis [Doaa Albaz/Anadolu]
“They are permanently, constantly, fleeing for their lives, from one danger zone to another. And they’re not fleeing randomly – they’re going to the areas that Israel directed them to go to ‘for their own safety’. Then they are being attacked.”
Xavier Joubert, Save the Children
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Hundreds of thousands of them are at risk. They are sick, living with disabilities, malnourished & traumatized.
The children in Gaza need a ceasefire now to prevent further suffering."
You're eventually gonna run out of time. Might be because of your own decisions (lifestyle, bad habits). Might also have nothing to do with you: Wile E. Coyote drops a piano intended for the Roadrunner, that takes you out instead. Start enjoying our life right now. "I'm too busy." is not a life, forwards nothing to your children.
Sima Bahous, the executive director of UN Women, said more than 10,000 Palestinian women have been killed in the seven months of Israel’s war on Gaza – including scores of women and children horrifically killed by an Israeli air strike while sleeping in tents in what was supposed to be a safe zone in Rafah.
“This war must stop because women and girls are bearing the brunt of it,” Bahous told a UN Security Council meeting on Tuesday.
Sketched by #kids? Drawings depicting #gladiators among latest discoveries at Pompeii.
Charcoal graffiti believed to have been sketched by #children uncovered at Pompeii.
‘Unprecedented scale’ of violations against children in Gaza, West Bank and Israel, UN report says (www.theguardian.com)
More grave violations against children were committed in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel than anywhere else in the world last year, according to a UN report due to be published this week.The report on children and armed conflict, which has been seen by the Guardian, verified more cases of war crimes against children in the...