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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Bryony Gooch

‘The children in Gaza are too weak to play or sing: hunger has stolen their childhood’

At the SOS Children’s Village in southern Gaza, a group of children are crowding around a bus carrying energy biscuits and milk from Unicef.

“You cannot imagine the happiness in the camp when they received those biscuits,” says Reem Alreqeb, who helps run the camp for displaced children in Khan Younis. “It isn’t that delicious, but the children felt good to taste them after three months without any sweets.”

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