Hadeel Awad writes:

For 15 months now, Gaza’s children have been reduced to a statistic. The death toll reported gives a specific count for children. Malnourishment and starvation are reported in terms of numbers of children they have affected and killed. Even the cold weather is measured in terms of how many babies it has killed in makeshift tents.

But behind these numbers lie heartbreaking stories of Palestinian children whose childhood has been cut short. As a nurse working at al-Shifa Medical Complex and then in a makeshift clinic in a displacement camp, I have come across so many painful stories of children suffering amid this hideous war.

Seeing so many children suffer has made the misery of trying to survive a genocide that much more unbearable. [Continue reading…]