Gaza children show trauma MSF describes loss of safety
MSF documents Gaza children's trauma
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RTVE reports four Gazans killed that day in two Israeli airstrikes and families holding a funeral amid rubble. It retains the Israeli military's assertion that militants were targeted. A year after the ceasefire, the presenter says near-daily attacks have killed about 1,500, injured thousands and left the peace plan and reconstruction stalled. Ebbaba Hameida's report describes children's drawings reflecting three years of bombing, hunger and displacement. Dina describes drones over her home; Rahaf depicts crowded tents and says she warns her mother to go inside when tanks fire. MSF's Joan Tubau describes withdrawal and difficulty expressing themselves or relating to others, and Mahmoud Al-Balbisi says war continues and children have lost safe places to express themselves. The report attributes near-universal exposure to post-traumatic stress to WHO and says 94 percent of the population lacks a safe place. It closes with nearly 1,500 deaths under the year-old ceasefire, over 300 children. These aired statistics and assessments remain attributed.
RTVE presents Dina's and Rahaf's drawings and testimony about drones, tanks and displacement alongside MSF assessments of children's withdrawal, difficulty relating to others and lost safe spaces. The report connects these conditions to three years of offensive, hunger and displacement and continuing attacks under the year-old ceasefire, citing WHO exposure estimates and more than 300 children among nearly 1,500 post-ceasefire deaths. Assessments, statistics and testimony remain attributed. The original dates of these recorded interviews are not established.
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