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Tag: children

Boy with amputated leg, with doctor in medical facility.

He lost his leg but not his dreams

My nephew Hamood looks beyond his amputation and other unrepaired injuries, and toward the day when he can play soccer again.
Yusuf El-Mobayed
    A little boy posing with some greenery.

    Starvation and resilience

    Famine is a cruel strategy Israel has imposed on the Gaza Strip and one that aid organizations work to counteract.
    Dima Shamaly
      A baby with oxygen being supplied.

      Shattered lives: the silent cries of Gaza’s children

      Three children, three stories of childhood robbed.
      Reem Sleem
        Three jack-o-lanterns.

        The real monsters in Gaza

        Our children don’t imagine monsters once a year on Halloween — they face them in real life, every day.
        Rim Mohammed
          Courtyard of school filled with children who have been displaced with their families.

          Wedad, the young warrior

          A young girl fights against the challenges of war to help her widowed mother and care for three younger siblings. 
          Sojoud Bakroon
          • Gaza Strip
          Child covered in dirt and bleeding.

          Where were you, Mama?

          They burned me, Mama / My heart was crying / Because my eyes melted / From the fire.
          Nadera Raied Mushtha
            A blue tent in muddy surroundings.

            Life in a displacement camp

            Hadeel has been forced to move multiple times, each time to a new camp, new tent, and new neighbors she does not know.
            Hadeel Awad
              Woman using clay stove.

              Another winter in a displacement camp

              Heavy rain showers flooded our tents a few days ago, destroying what little we have, giving us a taste of what is to come.
              Hadeel Awad
                Boy on bicycle on street at night with another boy running in the street.

                September was different in Gaza this year

                My son wants to know when he can go to school again, when he can go home to his bicycle, and when the war will end.
                Iman Ibraheem Abo Qamar
                  Tents of a displacement camp in Gaza.

                  I gave birth during genocide, into a world I no longer know

                  Surviving the genocide in Gaza is the only life my child knows. I fight every day to keep him alive. 
                  Aya Nashwan
                    Boy crying in front of flag of Palestine and the word "Ceasefire."

                    Don’t ask me my age

                    How old are you? In times of war / A five-year-old child is not five anymore.
                    Shahd Ahmad Alnaami
                      Face of a longcase clock.

                      The longcase clocks in our home were not my enemies

                      A child believed that the two beautiful timekeepers in the hallway were responsible for the terrifying sounds of war.
                      Lujain Anan