Gaza used to have one of the highest literacy rates in the world. Since October 2023, more than 64,000 children have reportedly been killed or maimed; many who survived are now orphans, trying to stay alive. Education is a distant memory.
“I feel such pain in my heart after losing my dad,” said 12-year-old Gazal Basam at the camp for orphans. “I want to live like I did before the war, but I know life will never be the same again.”
My 14-year-old niece Noor was the only survivor after an Israeli airstrike. I want the world to remember who we lost.
Buried under rubble, lost in the chaos, decomposed beyond recognition: the desperate struggle to find thousands amid Israel’s ongoing war.