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Children in Gaza are experiencing severe trauma due to the ongoing war, facing hunger, lack of education, and loss of family. The article highlights the devastating impact of the conflict on children's lives, detailing their struggles for basic necessities and the loss of their childhood.
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The beach, where her parents occasionally took her as a treat before the war, has become her full-time home.Rahma now lives in a storehouse for fishing equipment with her parents and four siblings, who share the space with several displaced families. She usually eats one meal a day, often lentils or pasta, her parents said. Trying to remember what good food looked like, Rahma plays with the wet sand, shaping it into imaginary meals.\u201cIf someone gave me a choice between crayons and bread,\u201d Rahma said, \u201cI would choose the bread.\u201dAfter 22 months of war, childhood in Gaza hardly exists.ImageWounded Palestinian children after a school sheltering displaced people was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City in April.Credit...Saher Alghorra for The New York TimesImageA boy mourning his father, who was killed in a strike, in May.Credit...Saher Alghorra for The New York TimesThere are about 1.1 million children in the territory, and nearly all require mental health or psychosocial support, according to research by the United Nations. Most of them have been out of school for nearly two years. After Israel\u2019s 11-week blockade on food this year, all children younger than 5 are at risk of acute malnutrition, the U.N. said.Israel\u2019s military operation, which began after the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, has killed more than 18,000 Palestinians under the age of 18, according to the Gazan health authorities, who do not distinguish between civilians and combatants. About two-thirds of them did not reach their teenage years. A New York Times investigation last year found that since the start of the war, the Israeli military has significantly loosened safeguards meant to protect civilians, including children.\u201cNormal markers of childhood are gone, replaced by hunger, fear and all-consuming trauma,\u201d said James Elder, a spokesman for UNICEF who has regularly visited Gaza throughout the war. \u201cThis war is being waged as if childhood itself has no place in Gaza.\u201dImageDesperate children jostling for food at an aid kitchen in Gaza City in August.Credit...Saher Alghorra for The New York TimesImageDrawing water from an underground pipe.Credit...Saher Alghorra for The New York TimesThe Israeli military has said that it tries to minimize harm to all civilians, including children, and blamed Hamas militants for hiding among them, sometimes alongside their own families. Soldiers with the Israel Defense Forces have reported seeing children used as lookouts by Palestinian militant groups, which also kidnapped and killed children on Oct. 7, 2023.\u201cIntentional harm to civilians, and especially to children, is strictly prohibited and completely contrary to both international law and the binding orders of the I.D.F.,\u201d the military said in a statement.Want to stay updated on what\u2019s happening in Israel and the West Bank and Gaza Strip? Sign up for Your Places: Global Update, and we\u2019ll send our latest coverage to your inbox.As Rahma flicked recently through prewar photos on a cellphone, she stopped at an image of herself at an ice-cream parlor.\u201cI just stared at it,\u201d she said. \u201cI felt like I didn\u2019t recognize those days.\u201dImage\u201cIf someone gave me a choice between crayons and bread,\u201d Rahma Abu Abed, 12, said, \u201cI would choose the bread.\u201dCredit...Bilal Shbair for The New York TimesLife for Rahma, like that of many children in Gaza, has become one of hunger. Israel has limited food supplies to the enclave since the earliest days of the war, and the situation has worsened since March, when Israel began its blockade. In late May, Israel allowed some food back into the territory, using private contractors to distribute the food from a few sites.But for families like Rahma\u2019s, that did not solve the problem. Reaching the sites is dangerous and exhausting in part because they were built behind Israeli military lines, far from where most people live. Hundreds have been shot and killed by Israeli soldiers as they try to reach the sites, and those who get there unscathed often find the food has already been taken. Israel says its soldiers have fired \u201cwarning shots\u201d at people who have strayed from designated access routes toward Israeli military lines.Reaching the sites is a process that favors the fittest. Rahma\u2019s father, Nidal Abu Abed, 42, has often been knocked over during the rush toward the sites, and he was once nearly shot, according to Rahma\u2019s mother, Heba Abu Abed, 32. Because he rarely manages to secure a box of food, Ms. Abu Abed added, her husband is regularly forced to gather lentil grains or bits of broken pasta that have spilled onto the ground.\u201cHe picks them up, I clean them, and I rinse them again and again to remove the sand or dust,\u201d Ms. Abu Abed said. \u201cThen I cook them for the children. That\u2019s our meal, once a day, if we\u2019re lucky.\u201dRahma\u2019s younger sister, Rital, 2, is just learning to talk. The process of seeking aid looms so large in Rital\u2019s life that it even dominates her limited vocabulary.\u201cWhere\u2019s your dad?\u201d Rital was asked on a recent afternoon.\u201cBaba aid!\u201d she replied.ImagePalestinians after reaching an aid site in central Gaza. Hundreds have been shot and killed by Israeli soldiers as they have tried to reach the sites.Credit...Abdel Kareem Hana\/Associated PressVideoCollecting food that spilled from packages after an airdrop.While some food is available in the markets, it has often been unaffordable for families like Rahma\u2019s; her parents, like the vast majority of Gazans, have no work. Though food prices have dropped in recent days after a rise in deliveries, they are still astronomically high. On Aug. 13, according to the Gaza Chamber of Commerce and Industry, flour cost more than 10 times its prewar price.Rahma helps her family survive by fetching water. She stands in line every day with several empty plastic containers, waiting for a water truck sent by an aid group. The process lasts for hours in the hot sun, often until the afternoon. People often push past her, knowing she can do little to stop them.To alleviate the food crisis, which drew global condemnation, Israel recently loosened restrictions on U.N. food convoys and permitted foreign air forces to airdrop aid packages over Gaza.When Rahma gazes up at those planes, she said, she wishes one would fly her family to a safer place.\u201cI imagine riding on it like a hot-air balloon, going to a country with no war \u2014 just food, school and toys,\u201d she said.A World Without SchoolHala Abu Hilal, 10, pretends to be a teacher to keep her four younger sisters entertained. She stands up in their tent and recites things she remembers from school \u2014 sometimes simple math equations, sometimes the alphabet.\u201cTwo plus four equals?\u201d she calls.\u201cSix!\u201d they reply.ImageSanaa Abu Hilal with her children, from left: Tala; Deema; Maryam, in her arms; Bisan; and Hala.Credit...Bilal Shbair for The New York TimesIn today\u2019s Gaza, this game of make-believe is as close as most children get to school. Some 95 percent of schools have been damaged in the fighting, leaving most children without education for nearly two academic years, according to U.N. data. Many schools have been turned into displacement camps. Israel has regularly struck them, saying that Hamas leaders have used them as cover.Hala\u2019s school, like her home, is inaccessible. She is from Rafah, Gaza\u2019s southernmost city, which has largely been flattened. She and her family fled their home last year and now live in a displacement camp close to a beach miles to the north.In this camp, there is currently no school, according to Hala\u2019s mother, Sanaa Abu Hilal. For a few months, volunteers in the camp ran a makeshift classroom, teaching ad hoc classes in a tent, but that system ended when the last truce collapsed in March, Ms. Abu Hilal said.The U.N. tries to provide basic teaching via an online portal; some teachers also send educational material to parents via WhatsApp. But for families like Hala\u2019s, the internet is often inaccessible. It\u2019s hard to connect for prolonged periods to the phone network, and phone batteries run out quickly. Ms. Abu Hilal has a phone with a broken screen that barely responds to her touch.Instead, Ms. Abu Hilal tries to teach the children herself \u2014 recently, she did Arabic grammar with Hala, simple geometry with Bisan, 6, and the alphabet with Deema, 5. But the sisters have lost four semesters of learning, while Bisan, who should have started school this year, has never received formal education.Their sister, Tala, 8, seems most affected by the lack of classes. With no school to attend, Tala whiles away the day inventing games, some of which are disturbingly warped by the violence that surrounds her. Once, her mother recalled, Tala picked up a stone and said to her sisters: \u201cI\u2019ll throw this stone. Pretend it\u2019s an F-16 missile.\u201dThen she hurled it at a tent.ImageA school turned shelter amid ruins in Gaza City.Credit...Saher Alghorra for The New York TimesImageA makeshift classroom set up on the rubble of a house in Khan Younis, Gaza, in 2024.Credit...Haitham Imad\/EPA, via ShutterstockBefore the war, Ms. Abu Hilal said, Tala was the star of her class and sometimes got up in the middle of the night to cram for tests. \u201cI wanted to be a doctor,\u201d Tala said in an interview alongside her mother. \u201cI wanted my daddy to build a hospital for me. I wanted to treat everyone for free. My daddy is in heaven now.\u201dTheir father, Ashraf Abu Hilal, a former janitor, tried to return to their home last August, seeking to retrieve some goods that he could sell for food, according to Ms. Abu Hilal. He never returned.A day later, his brother spotted him lying dead in a nearby street, Ms. Abu Hilal said. Nearby gunfire prevented the brother from reaching Ashraf\u2019s body or discerning how he had died, Ms. Abu Hilal added. By the time they could reach the street safely, months later, little was left of the body, she said. (The Israeli military said it was unaware of the episode.)\u201cI hear how other kids call their dads \u2014 and their dad\u2019s reply,\u201d Ms. Abu Hilal recalled Hala telling her. \u201cI wish baba could answer me, too.\u201dA Childhood Without ParentsOn one page in his notebook, Sajed al-Ghalban, 10, has drawn a picture of his mother and father at their old home in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza. On another page, there\u2019s a drawing of his mother taking him to a vegetable stand.This is the closest Sajed can get to a hug from his parents. His father, Muhammad, and mother, Shireen, were killed in a strike that also destroyed their home in the third week of the war in 2023. The Israeli military said the house had been used for \u201cterror purposes\u201d and declined to comment on whether Mr. al-Ghalban was the target. One of Sajed\u2019s surviving aunts, Amany Abu Salah, said Sajed\u2019s father had no links to militant groups. It was not possible to verify either assertion.ImageSajed al-Ghalban, 10, drew a picture of his home that was destroyed.Credit...Bilal Shbair for The New York TimesSajed survived the attack unscathed, but his sister Alma, now 12, and brother Abdallah, now 8, suffered head injuries, according to video of the aftermath and their surviving relatives. Alma was later evacuated to Turkey for treatment, relatives told The Times.For nearly two years, Sajed and Abdallah were cared for by another aunt. Then, in July, that aunt was killed in a strike on a nearby tent that also wounded the boys, according to Ms. Abu Salah, the surviving aunt. Now, they live in another tent with Ms. Abu Salah and her three children.The boys\u2019 skin is still scarred by the shrapnel from the second strike \u2014 Abdallah has scars on his stomach and shoulder; Sajed on his foot and back. The Israeli military confirmed the attack, saying it was aimed at Hamas militants.The brothers are among at least 40,000 children who have lost at least one parent since the start of the war, according to statistics published by the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, which employs thousands of officials in Gaza.The children live in an encampment that local volunteers have created mainly to care for those orphaned in the war; in this camp alone, there are roughly 1,200 orphans, according to the camp administrators.With no parents and a younger brother to care for, Sajed is suspended between childhood and premature adulthood. Sometimes he draws childish pictures in his notebook. Or he plays marbles and hide-and-seek with other children in the camp. But he is also increasingly trying to support his aunt in keeping their makeshift household together, according to Ms. Abu Salah.He sweeps the tent each morning. He lines up for hours in the heat to fetch water. He fixes the tent poles when they collapse. He makes kites from scrap material and sells them for pocket change that he saves to buy food for himself and Abdallah.\u201cI\u2019m the man now,\u201d Sajed told his aunt, she said. \u201cI\u2019ll go buy what we need.\u201dRecently, Sajed, remembering how his father kept a rifle at home, said he wanted to help guard the aid convoys that bring food into Gaza. He also offered to make the perilous journey to the aid distribution sites, despite the risk of getting shot by soldiers or crushed by the crowds.\u201cHow would you do that?\u201d Ms. Abu Salah remembered asking him.\u201cI\u2019ll do it just like the men do,\u201d Sajed replied, she said.Yet, sometimes Sajed just wants to be a child. He misses the sweets he ate before the war, he said. He misses being with his mother in their kitchen. He misses going to the park with his father.\u201cWhy do all kids now have to wait in line for water?\u201d Sajed asked.\u201cI just want to go home, to go to school,\u201d he said.\u201cI just want the war to stop.\u201dJohnatan Reiss and Lia Lapidot contributed reporting from Tel Aviv.Patrick Kingsley is The Times\u2019s Jerusalem bureau chief, leading coverage of Israel, Gaza and the West Bank.See more on: The Israel-Hamas War, Hamas, The Palestinian Authority, United Nations Children's Fund, United NationsRead 1 CommentShare full articleRelated ContentAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT", "ai_headline": "To numb the traumas of wartime Gaza, children play games of memory", "ai_simplified_title": "Gaza Children Struggle Amidst War Trauma", "ai_excerpt": "Children in Gaza are experiencing severe trauma due to the ongoing war, facing hunger, lack of education, and loss of family. 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Middle East CrisisThe LatestIsraeli Settler AttacksAl Jazeera TargetedIsrael-Qatar TensionsFood CrisisMoves to Disarm HezbollahTo numb the traumas of wartime Gaza, Rahma Abu Abed, 12, plays a game with her friends. They ask one another: What did you eat before the war? What did your home look like before the war? What would you wear if you had new clothes?For Rahma, who recounted these details in an interview alongside her mother, Heba, the answers are often less soothing than tragic. She hasnβt eaten meat in months, her parents said. Her home in southern Gaza has been flattened, satellite imagery shows. Her clothes are mostly under the rubble. The beach, where her parents occasionally took her as a treat before the war, has become her full-time home.Rahma now lives in a storehouse for fishing equipment with her parents and four siblings, who share the space with several displaced families. She usually eats one meal a day, often lentils or pasta, her parents said. Trying to remember wh...
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Simplified: Rahma Abu Abed plays a game with friends to numb wartime Gaza traumas
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Simplified: Rahma has not eaten meat in months
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Simplified: Rahma's home in southern Gaza has been flattened
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Simplified: Rahma's clothes are mostly under rubble
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Simplified: The beach has become Rahma's full-time home
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Simplified: Childhood hardly exists in Gaza after 22 months of war
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Simplified: About 1.1 million children in territory require mental health support
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Simplified: Most children have been out of school for nearly two years
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π€ Gazaβs health ministry π News Article π·οΈ Military , Casualties π a114b4c8-987f-4c78-a711-dd9c7b37996aSimplified: Israel's military campaign since October 2023 killed more than 55500 Palestinians more than half women and children according to Gaza's health ministr...
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Simplified: About two-thirds of Palestinians killed did not reach teenage years
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Simplified: Israeli military has loosened safeguards to protect civilians since war start
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Simplified: IDF soldiers saw children used as lookouts by Palestinian militant groups
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Simplified: Israel allowed some food back into territory in late May
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Simplified: Reaching food sites is dangerous and exhausting
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Simplified: Hundreds have been shot and killed by Israeli soldiers trying to reach sites
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Simplified: Reaching food sites favors the fittest
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Simplified: Nidal Abu Abed has often been knocked over during rush to sites
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Simplified: Nidal Abu Abed is forced to gather spilled food
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Simplified: Food prices are still astronomically high despite recent drops after a rise in deliveries
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Simplified: Flour cost more than 10 times its prewar price on August 13 according to the Gaza Chamber of Commerce and Industry
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Simplified: Rahma stands in line every day with empty plastic containers waiting for a water truck sent by an aid group
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Simplified: The process lasts for hours in the hot sun often until the afternoon
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Simplified: People often push past Rahma knowing she can do little to stop them
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π€ The author π News Article π·οΈ Conflict , Humanitarian Crisis π a114b5a9-e7ed-4e33-913b-ebdf2256ccafSimplified: Israel's subsequent military assault on Gaza has caused hunger crisis
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π€ The author π News Article π·οΈ Statistical , Social π a1161455-d0e8-40cc-b271-2ce76a752f8aSimplified: 95 percent of schools have been damaged in the fighting leaving most children without education for nearly two academic years according to U.N. data
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Simplified: Many schools have been turned into displacement camps
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Simplified: Israel has regularly struck schools saying Hamas leaders have used them as cover
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Simplified: Volunteers in the camp ran a makeshift classroom teaching ad hoc classes in a tent for a few months but that system ended when the last truce collapse...
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Simplified: The U.N. tries to provide basic teaching via an online portal some teachers also send educational material to parents via WhatsApp
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Simplified: The internet is often inaccessible for families like Halaβs
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Simplified: It is hard to connect for prolonged periods to the phone network and phone batteries run out quickly
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Simplified: Ms Abu Hilal has a phone with a broken screen that barely responds to her touch
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Simplified: The sisters have lost four semesters of learning while Bisan who should have started school this year has never received formal education
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Simplified: Tala 8 seems most affected by the lack of classes
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Simplified: Tala hurled the stone at a tent
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Simplified: Before the war Tala was the star of her class and sometimes got up in the middle of the night to cram for tests Ms Abu Hilal said
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Simplified: Ashraf Abu Hilal a former janitor tried to return to their home last August seeking to retrieve some goods that he could sell for food according to Ms...
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He never returned.0.950Simplified: Ashraf Abu Hilal never returned
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Simplified: Ashraf Abu Hilalβs brother spotted him lying dead in a nearby street a day later Ms Abu Hilal said
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By the time they could reach the street safely, months later, little was left of the body, she said.0.950Simplified: By the time they could reach the street safely months later little was left of the body
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Simplified: Sajed survived the attack unscathed but his sister Alma now 12 and brother Abdallah now 8 suffered head injuries according to video of the aftermath a...
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Simplified: Alma was later evacuated to Turkey for treatment relatives told The Times
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π€ The author π News Article π a116146a-d5dd-4db1-a7cd-5e95d531cd14Simplified: Sajed and Abdallah were cared for by another aunt for nearly two years
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π€ The author π News Article π a116146b-f317-4cd0-9610-21c469939259Simplified: In July that aunt was killed in a strike on a nearby tent that also wounded the boys according to Ms Abu Salah the surviving aunt
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π€ The author π News Article π a116146f-9cbf-4964-bf53-d3dcfe0a724cSimplified: Brothers are among at least 40000 children who have lost at least one parent since start of war according to statistics published by Palestinian Autho...
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π€ The author π News Article π a1161470-a20f-40dc-92a5-7f7df30132b7Simplified: Children live in encampment that local volunteers created mainly to care for those orphaned in war in this camp alone there are roughly 1200 orphans a...
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π€ The author π News Article π a1161471-b84e-4509-8bd3-2c8494716666Simplified: Sometimes he draws childish pictures in his notebook
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π€ The author π News Article π a1161472-83fd-4a37-a0de-d0df27a925b9Simplified: Or he plays marbles and hide and seek with other children in camp
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π€ The author π News Article π a1161473-a052-4d56-9657-93bffad5e750Simplified: He sweeps the tent each morning
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π€ The author π News Article π a1161476-193c-4293-b3b8-df582e1e6740Simplified: He makes kites from scrap material and sells them for pocket change that he saves to buy food for himself and Abdallah
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π€ The author π News Article π a1161476-e40d-4c1d-9551-917fbcfb9da8Simplified: I am the man now Sajed told his aunt she said
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π€ Sajed π News Article π a1161477-ec65-408d-9da7-434c5d644a48Simplified: I will go buy what we need
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π€ The author π News Article π a1161478-9748-4859-a5d3-405349447372Simplified: Recently Sajed remembering how his father kept a rifle at home said he wanted to help guard aid convoys that bring food into Gaza
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π€ The author π News Article π a1161479-848f-4eba-9fb0-97bed9818c0dSimplified: He also offered to make perilous journey to aid distribution sites despite risk of getting shot by soldiers or crushed by crowds
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π€ The author π News Article π a116147a-5f35-44be-a194-ca8a8856221bSimplified: How would you do that Ms Abu Salah remembered asking him
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π€ The author π News Article π a116147c-3df3-4dae-9e14-a2d5a11500f9Simplified: He misses sweets he ate before war he said
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π€ The author π News Article π a116147d-373b-42a8-8275-4900f1eca616Simplified: He misses being with his mother in their kitchen
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π€ The author π News Article π a116147e-161c-4988-a184-0a13d4206570Simplified: He misses going to park with his father
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π€ The author π News Article π a116147e-c1a0-4ec1-be00-bc3b3dd53f2aSimplified: Why do all kids now have to wait in line for water Sajed asked
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π€ The author π News Article π a116147f-7397-44c6-8a0f-32529d03e2b9Simplified: I just want to go home to go to school he said
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π€ Sajed π News Article π a1161480-6bb2-4d18-a0de-a505609b67cbSimplified: I just want war to stop