After more than two years of a genocidal war, wounded and traumatised Palestinian children stare at an uncertain future.
After more than two years of a genocidal war, wounded and traumatised Palestinian children stare at an uncertain future.
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Jabalia, Gaza – Omar Halawa got up from his chair, like any 13-year-old child would. But he had forgotten a devastating detail about himself: he only had one leg.
“He fell off the chair,” his mother Yasmin Halawa told Al Jazeera. “It is very sad for us all, seeing him like that.”
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