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Children make up about half of Gaza’s nearly 2.3 million people — many of whom were born during Israel’s strict 16-year blockade of Gaza and are now watching bombs destroy their neighborhoods.
Before the war, there were high numbers of children in Gaza that had documented high levels of emotional distress and mental illness, with a study in 2011 found that among Palestinian children PTSD rates were between 23-70%, [29] while a UNICEF study in 2021 found one in three children in Gaza needed care for conflict-related trauma. [30]
Elsewhere in Gaza, dozens of Palestinian Christians celebrated Orthodox Palm Sunday by attending mass at the Church of Saint Porphyrius, the oldest in Gaza City, and praying for peace. Videos show ...
The 2023 Israel–Hamas war, the bloodiest of the wars Gaza had experienced in the 21st century, had a catastrophic effect on children in Gaza and weeks of sustained air strikes and explosions have contributed to their psychological destruction. Following 16 days of bombardment, children developed severe trauma, with symptoms including ...
On 13 December 2023, the bodies of fifteen Palestinians were discovered at the Shadia Abu Ghazala School, west of Jabalia refugee camp in Al-Faluja, Gaza Strip.The school had been used as a shelter and had been surrounded by the Israeli military for several days.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the United States supplied Israel with 2,000-pound bunker buster bombs to be dropped on Gaza, a 25-mile strip of land with more than 2 million people living ...
At the outbreak of war, the Christian community in Gaza numbered 1017 members, of which 135 were Catholic, [5] and together they make up barely 0.05% of the population of the Gaza Strip. [ a ] Relations with the wider Muslim population were peaceful, with outreach programmes catering to the poor and elderly, and thousands of Muslim children ...
A four-day ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas has begun at the scheduled time of 7am, to be followed by the release of 13 women and children under a Qatar-brokered truce.. The first of at ...