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Games, YouTube, hugs: How Gaza mothers calm terrified kids amid Israel war

Palestinian mother Sajeda Abdu and her children look at a mobile phone, as another round of violence intensifies mental health crisis for Gaza children, in Gaza City, August 9, 2022. [Mohammed Salem/Reuters]

Gaza City – As another Israeli air raid thundered, eight-year-old Pretty Abu-Ghazzah stood shell-shocked, while her five-year-old twin brothers rushed to their mother Esraa’s arms. Pretty’s youngest sibling, aged two, cried loudly.

To escape the heavy bombardment in their neighbourhood of Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, Esraa brought her children to her in-laws’ house in a less-targeted area. But there is no escaping the mental health effects of the raid.

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