Death feels imminent for 96% of children in Gaza, study finds
Death feels probable, death feels preferable, death feels it's way thru the rubble and rotten wheat bags, death feels warm in another's blood dripping from the sky, death feels welcomed, death feels escape, death feels life's heels moving toward bread heels, death feels tortured by unfeeling near death
'This report lays bare that Gaza is one of the most horrifying places in the world to be a child,”
Helen Pattinson, chief executive of War Child UK, said.
“Alongside the levelling of hospitals, schools and homes, a trail of psychological destruction
has caused wounds unseen
but no less destructive on children who hold no responsibility for this war.”
"The estimated death toll in Gaza is more than
44,000
and a recent assessment by the UN Human Rights Office found that
44% of the fatalities it was able to verify were children."
What's up, 44?
'Traumatic responses can manifest in various ways, including ongoing emotional distress, anxiety, behavioural changes, difficulties in relationships, regression, nightmares, sleep disturbances, eating issues, and physical symptoms such as pain.”
The sense of being doomed has become pervasive.
Almost all the children (96%) felt their death was imminent, and 49% actually wished to die,
a feeling that was much more prevalent among boys (72%) than girls (26%)."
'The international community must act now before the child mental health catastrophe we are witnessing embeds itself into
multigenerational trauma, the consequences of which the region will be dealing with for
decades to come.”
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