Children in Gaza find themselves having to work to survive, sacrificing education and childhood dreams.
Children in Gaza find themselves having to work to survive, sacrificing education and childhood dreams.
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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – It is 5:30 in the morning. The sun hasn’t fully risen, but 15-year-old Mahmoud rubs the sleep from his eyes.
He woke up this morning not in a warm bed, but on a thin mattress in a crowded tent – displaced, like hundreds of thousands of others in Gaza.
Children as young as eight have been pushed to work for their families’ survival, losing their education and childhood.
Thousands of children in Gaza have been forced to take on adult responsibilities such as providing food for family.
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