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This Is What Ramadan Looks Like For Palestinian Children

July 20, 2014
A Palestinian boy, who medics said was wounded by Israeli shelling, receives treatment at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City July 20, 2014. At least 20 Palestinians were killed on Sunday by Israeli shelling in a Gaza neighbourhood, where bodies were strewn in the street and thousands fled toward the hospital packed with wounded, witnesses and health officials said. The mass casualties in the Shejaia district in northeast Gaza appeared to be the heaviest since Israel launched its offensive on the Palestinian territory on July 8 after cross-border rocket strikes by militants intensified. Militants kept up their rocket fire on Israel, with no sign of a diplomatic breakthrough toward a ceasefire in sight. Photo by Ali Jadallah

On Sunday, July 20 Israel intensified its military operations in Gaza’s Al-Shuja’iya, killing nearly 100 people in what Palestinians have decried as a “massacre.” Bodies of children were witnessed strewn in the rubble, with medics failing to remove them due to heavy fire. Since the Israeli offensive in Gaza commenced on July 8, in the middle of the Holy Month of Ramadan, at least 90 children have been killed and more than 700 have been injured. According to the UNOHCA, At least 72,000 children require direct and specialized psychosocial support (PSS) on the basis of families who have experienced death, injury or loss of home over the past 13 days. To try to show the impact of this conflict on Palestinian children, multiple images were collected below from just Sunday’s ‘massacre’ of Palestinians in Al-Shuja’iya. Warning, some images may be distressing….


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