How Gaza’s Children Are Enduring Loss and Trauma on the War’s Third Anniversary

Children Born in Gaza Over Last 3 Years Have No Memory of World Before Genocide

Israel's genocide has narrowed Palestinian children’s expectations of life's possibilities.

The children in Gaza who have no memory of the world before the genocide

In Gaza, an entire generation of children born into the genocide has no memory of how life was like before, and doesn't know about the world outside Gaza's walls.

How Gaza’s children are enduring loss and trauma on the war’s third anniversary

DUBAI: War strips away childhood long before it claims young lives. In Gaza, the small, quiet rhythms of growing up have been replaced by the relentless mechanics of survival — hungry bellies, grief for lost parents and bodies missing limbs struggling to endure. Three years after the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, attack triggered Israel’s assault on Gaza, some 1.9 million people have been displaced, many repeatedly, and more than 1.2 million have been…

Oct 7: Trauma, tragedy and the normalisation of Palestinian suffering

Ahmed Najar Three years is long enough for a child to learn to speak, to walk and to begin discovering the world. In Gaza, three years have instead been measured in children killed before they could grow, families erased from the civil registry and neighbourhoods reduced to landscapes of dust. On October 7, the world marks three years since the Hamas-led blitz on Israel and the beginning of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. For Palestinians, howev…