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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Julian Borger, and Seham Tantesh in Gaza

No family, no stability, no social fabric: the anguish of Gaza’s wounded orphans

A baby with facial injuries is held by a man with his back to the camera
Three-month-old baby Rim was the sole survivor of an Israeli strike on the home of the Abu Hiyye family in Khan Younis. Rim has been taken in by her aunt. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty

Within a few months, the war in Gaza had already made its own addition to the vocabulary of emergency medical assistance with the world’s most heartbreaking acronym: WCNSF, “wounded child, no surviving family”.

Over two years of bombardment and famine the problem has worsened, even though in the constant chaos created by Israeli bombing and evacuation orders, which fragment communities and scatter them around the Gaza Strip, it is hard to keep track of children separated from their families.

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