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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Chris McGreal

Death is commonplace for Gaza’s lost generation

It’s estimated that two-thirds of Palestinian children in Gaza have been traumatised by violence.
It’s estimated that two-thirds of Palestinian children in Gaza have been traumatised by violence. Photograph: Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto/Getty Images

Two decades ago the mother of nine-year-old Abdul Rahman Jadallah described to me how she twice lost her child. Once to a worship of death and then to death itself.

Living in southern Gaza, the Palestinian boy had come to accept destruction and killing as normal, and to admire the men attacking Israel and what he saw as the heroic circumstances of their deaths.

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