“I call upon all free people in the world, to anyone with a shred of humanity… there are massacres happening here. Children are being torn to pieces. What’s the fault of these children and women?”
Abu Nabil, a Jabalia resident
A man carries the dead body of a Palestinian child recovered from a house hit by an Israeli strike, in Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip, Sunday [Ramadan Abed/Reuters]
A boy looks on as he sits atop cushions and mattresses loaded in the back of an animal-drawn cart led by a man as they evacuate from Sheikh Zayed in the northern Gaza Strip [AFP]
At least eight people, including women and children, have been reported killed and 10 were wounded after Israeli artillery shelling targeted a group of Palestinians filling water containers in the al-Faluja area, west of Jabalia camp, in northern Gaza today.
“The hospital system in Gaza has all but collapsed. We have paediatricians in field hospitals in Gaza who said that they are seeing cases of malnutrition. They are seeing hepatitis, jaundice, gastroenteritis. These are horrific challenges facing children. And we just do not have supplies or enough personnel to deal with this.”
Alexandra Saieh, head of humanitarian policy and advocacy at Save the Children International
Since the war on Gaza began, all of the enclave’s schools have closed, leaving hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children without formal schooling or a safe place to stay.
For children already traumatised by war, losing out on education during key years of their development is another devastating blow.
Children play in a charred van in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 12, 2024 [AFP]
Courtney Gore, the co-host of a right-wing online talk show, won a seat on a Texas school board on the basis that she would undo leftist indoctrination and get rid of educational materials with inappropriate messages about sexuality and race. Then she took office and actually read the curriculum, finding that the subject matter simply taught children “how to be a good friend, a good human.” The Texas Tribune talked to her about why she ran for office, what she thinks is behind the push to take over school boards, and the backlash she's faced since speaking out against the ultra-right element of the Republican party.
Palestinians sit at their house which was destroyed in an Israeli strike, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip May 14, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
A Palestinian child, wounded in Israeli fire during an Israeli invasion in Jabalia refugee camp, sits in a tent inside of Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa
Palestinian children walk at a nearly deserted school used as a shelter by displaced people who fled Rafah after Israeli forces launched a ground and air operation in the eastern part of the southern Gaza City in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
Palestinians ride on a vehicle as they flee Rafah after Israeli forces launched a ground and air operation in the eastern part of the southern Gaza City in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
Palestinians carry the dead body of a child recovered from under the rubble of a house hit in an Israeli strike in Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Ramadan Abed
“This is the fifth time we have been forced to move (...) It feels like we are being killed slowly. Our children are missing out on their life, education, they are experiencing lack of stability, forced displacement, fear. I can’t explain what it feels like living through this for the fifth time. We are paying the price for a war that we have nothing to do with.”
Palestinian woman Buthayna Abu Jazar reacts as she holds the hand of her son Hazma, who was killed in an Israeli strike in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip May 9, 2024. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled
Displaced Palestinian boys, who fled their house due to Israeli strikes, play football as they shelter at a tent camp in Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Ramadan Abed
Palestinians ride on a vehicle as they flee Rafah after Israeli forces launched a ground and air operation in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 13. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
All four of the Palestinians killed in an Israeli shelling in al-Zuwaida in the central Gaza Strip were children, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS).