Thursday, January 29, 2015

More than 370,000 children have been left shell-shocked by Israeli attack on Gaza

"Four boys from the Bakr family died in the missile strike and four were injured. In the immediate aftermath, Sayed was left paralysed with terror, unable to speak, writhing hysterically against a wall. Today, more than six months later, he is one of hundreds of thousands of children in Gaza who need treatment for shell-shock." "There is no shortage in Gaza of stories of severely traumatised children still gripped by the after-effects of the war. The 50-day conflict left 539 Palestinian children dead and close to 3,000 injured,"