The children killed in Gaza
By Andrew Marzel, The Telegraph
During a 50-day offensive, Israeli ground forces and strike aircraft have bombarded targets across the Gaza Strip.
As well as Hamas bunkers and rocket launching facilities, civilian homes, schools and hospitals have all been hit.
About half of Gaza’s 1.8 million people are children under the age of 18.
Postponed thoughts
Postponed thoughts
It's almost a shock for me watching the news about the bombing of another high rise building in the west of Gaza... I'm living in one of the high-rise buildings close to the beach... The circle of destruction is narrowing and coming closer.
The constant presence of death in the lives of Palestinian children
By Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Mondoweiss
At a gathering at the Abu Khdeir house in Jerusalem after Muhammad Abu Khdeir was burned alive, a mother narrated a conversation she had with her daughter:
Lama: “If I die, will they burn me like they burned Muhammad Abu Khdeir? What will happen to us? If I die like all the children in Gaza, how could I play or sing?”
UN says Syrian death toll more than 191,000
More than 191,000 people have died in Syria, United Nation human rights chief Navi Pillay has said, lashing out at "international paralysis" on the nearly three-and-a-half year conflict.
Israeli forces use Palestinian child as human shield in Gaza
By Defense for Children International - Palestine Section
Ramallah, August 21, 2014—Israeli soldiers repeatedly used Ahmad Abu Raida, 17, as a human shield for five days while he was held hostage during Israel’s ground invasion of the Gaza Strip.
Doctors Start Work as U.N. Estimates 400,000 Gaza Children Need Psychological Care
Palestinian boy Mohammed Wahdan, whom medics said was wounded in Israeli shelling, receives psychological care at Shifa hospital in Gaza City August 14, 2014. Mohammed Salem/Reuters
Whole villages have been wiped off the map: my visit to Khuza’a
Dear Friends,
I’m writing now from my home, but I still feel dizzy from shock and nauseated by the sights and smells on my visit to Khan Younis and Khuza’a.
Israel kills 10-year-old in renewed Gaza assault
By Al-Akhbar English
Israeli shelling killed a 10-year-old boy at a mosque in northern Gaza Friday, medics said, making it the first death since fighting renewed following the expiration of a three-day truce.