Jerusalem/Gaza Strip - It all happened very quickly. It was just after sunset in Jerusalem on Friday May 7, we were dipping our fingers into the perfectly-rolled juicy stuffed olive leaves, ladening our plates with delicious fattoush salad, meat and aromatic cardamom-spiced rice, when our WhatsApp messages started frantically pinging: Unrest at al-Aqsa mosque! For weeks,
Marshall, 3, sits and eats his lunch in front of a piece of artwork entitled "In The End Is The Beginning" by Nadav Kander during the Estuary 2021 Festival in Shoeburyness, Britain June 10, 2021. REUT
She screams when someone comes near : Gaza children in trauma
By Nidal al-Mughrabi
Reuters
GAZA (Reuters) - Three weeks since Suzy Eshkuntana was pulled from the rubble of her house, destroyed by an Israeli air strike, the six-year-old girl has barely spoken except to ask for her mother and four siblings who were killed that day.
Her life turned upside down, Suzy and her father are now living with her uncle, who said she barely eats, doesn t sleep well and cannot muster the will to play. She asks a lot about her mother, and we tell her mama is in heaven, said Suzy s uncle Ramzi, who said she previously was full of energy.
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GAZA: Three weeks since Suzy Eshkuntana was pulled from the rubble of her house, destroyed by an Israeli airstrike, the six-year-old girl has barely spoken except to ask for her mother and four siblings who were killed that day.
Her life turned upside down, Suzy and her father are now living with her uncle, who said she barely eats, doesn’t sleep well and cannot muster the will to play.
“She asks a lot about her mother, and we tell her mama is in heaven,” said Suzy’s uncle Ramzi, who said she previously was full of energy.