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For some Gaza children, another round of violence reopens trauma
When Israeli missiles started landing in Gaza in early August, shattering glass and collapsing buildings, Jouman Abdu put on headphones, covered her eyes with a blindfold and stretched on the couch. The latest outbreak of hostilities lasted only a weekend but buttressed the trauma faced by Palestinian children growing up in the densely populated strip in the years since 2007 when Israel and Egypt imposed a blockade, cutting it off from outside, four people, including parents and experts, told Reuters. “If you are a child in or around Gaza and you are 15 years old, in your life you have already gone through five different conflicts,” said Lucia Elmi, special representative of UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, in Palestine.
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