Gaza's Stolen Childhood : Mohamed A. Hussein and Mohammed Haddad / Al Jazeera

Article shared by Fouad Kronfol

An excellent article on the children of Gaza and their traumatic existence.

Fouad

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Summary

About half of Gaza's 2.3 million residents are children. Over the past 535 days a child has been killed every 45 minutes - an average of 30 children every day."

To put this in perspective, if you had a room of 100 children:2 have been killed
2 are missing, presumed dead
3 have been wounded, many critically
5 have been orphaned or separated from their parents
5 require treatment for acute malnutrition

Israel’s military assault on Gaza has killed thousands of Palestinian children since. This article humanizes the statistics by sharing the stories of grieving families and the shattered futures of children whose lives were cut short. The piece provides emotional testimony, contextualizes the ongoing conflict, and emphasizes the collective trauma and irreversible impact on Gaza’s youth. It highlights both the physical devastation and psychological scars left behind, painting a grim picture of what the author refers to as a stolen generation.

Quotes
“The scale of the killing is incomprehensible. More than 13,000 children have been killed – more than the number of children born each year in Gaza.”
“They were just children. Their dreams were simple – to become doctors, engineers, teachers – but they were buried with them.”
“Entire families have been wiped out, and the names of children once scribbled on schoolbooks now appear on the walls of morgues.”