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New York Times
17 Aug 2024
Raja Abdulrahim


NextImg:‘There Is No Childhood in Gaza’

The war in Gaza had barely begun when 9-year-old Khaled Joudeh suffered an unimaginable loss. His mother, father, older brother and baby sister, along with dozens of other relatives, were all killed in an Israeli airstrike on their home.

In the months that followed, Khaled tried to be brave, his uncle, Mohammad Faris, recalled. He would comfort his younger brother Tamer, who, like Khaled, had survived the Oct. 22 strike that killed their family. But Tamer, 7, was left badly injured with a broken back and a broken leg, and was in constant pain.

“He would always quiet his brother when he cried,” Mr. Faris told The New York Times in a recent phone interview. “He would tell him: ‘Mama and Baba are in heaven. Mama and Baba would be sad if they knew we were crying because of them.’”

At night, when the unrelenting Israeli airstrikes on Gaza would start up again, Khaled would wake up shaking and screaming himself, sometimes running to his uncle to seek comfort.

ImageA man, seen from behind, carries a young child and a bicycle as smoke and fires burn around them.
Palestinians fled after an Israeli attack in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, in July.Credit...Haitham Imad/EPA, via Shutterstock
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Children searched through the rubble of their home after an operation by the Israeli army in central Gaza’s Nuseirat camp in June.Credit...Eyad Baba/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

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