After more than two years of a genocidal war, wounded and traumatised Palestinian children stare at an uncertain future.
ed note–as always, lots of ‘must knows’ that every war-weary Gentile with a vested interest in his/her own future survival needs to understand about all of this.
Firsto, ladies and Gentile-men, the notion that all of this is ‘accidental’ and all part of the kind of ‘collateral damage’ that accompanies the ‘fog of war’ is a lie.
As the news reports have made Kristol clear since BEFORE Oct. 7th, the Jews go out of their way to inflict as much pain and suffering on innocents as possible, and for the simple reason that, just as they have said often since Oct. 7th (and before) ‘there are no innocents in Gaza’.
Furthermore, ladies and Gentile-men, just so that there is no confusion on the matter, the Jews, being after all the followers/practitioners of Torah Judah-ism, are FORBIDDEN from having any sense of compassion or pity upon those they have been commanded to destroy.
Lest we forget–
‘When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are to possess and drives out the many nations larger and stronger than you, and when you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, show them no mercy, and do not allow anything that breathes to remain alive, for you are a people holy to the Lord your God who has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession…’ –Book of Deuteronomy
As well as–
‘Now go and attack Amalek and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them, but put to death all the men and women, the children and suckling infants, as well as their cattle, sheep, camels and donkeys.’ 1 Samuel 15:3
Just 2 of the hundreds of similar citations that could be entered into the peoples’ court as ‘exhibit A’ in convicting Judah-ism of being the diabolical mindset that it is.
And finalmente, ladies and Gentile-men, 2 last items to consider for all Gentiles with a vested interest in their own future survival–
Those whom the Jews are mass murdering on a regular basis in places such as Gaza, the West Bank, Syria, Lebanon, etc, are not just ‘innocent’, they are the BEST human beings on the planet. They are, both in their physical and spiritual DNA, the direct descendants of Jesus, His Holy Mother Mary, Mohammed, and all the saints and martyrs who have been murdered by ‘Israel’ going all the way back to Cain murdering Abel.
The last thing to consider is this, fellow Gentiles, and particularly for yuuz out there who take a ‘relaxed’ view of what those whom Jesus Christ described as–
‘CHILDREN OF THEIR FATHER, THE DEVIL…’
–are doing to the holy people of the Holy Land, which is that the same fire and fury that they, the ‘Children of Israel’, have employed in destroying the lives of these people today is the same fire and fury they will use in destroying everyone else tomorrow, and that includes those whom the Jews hate more than anyone else, i.e. the followers of Jesus Christ.
And just as they have laughed, mocked, and celebrated the evil they have done in Gaza and elsewhere, justifying it with the notion that ‘there are no innocents’ there, likewise they will laugh, mock, and celebrate when the rest of the world, and especially those in the Christian West, find themselves being destroyed in similar manner, because this is what the children of Lucifer, the words of Jesus Christ Himself, are driven to do.
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.’
Omar lost his right leg three months ago. On October 1, 2025, as Israel intensified its ground invasion of Gaza amid ceasefire talks with Hamas, Omar was on the street with his 11-year-old sister Layan, cousin Moath Halawa, 13, and friend Mohammed Al Siksik, also 13, to get water from a tanker that had come near their camp in north Gaza’s Jabalia area.
‘It was impossible to pay 6000 shekels for a vehicle to get us to the south, so we had decided to stay in the north,’ recalled Yasmin, adding that the family had been displaced more than 15 times during the Israeli genocidal war that began in October 2023.
‘The drinking water supply became very rare in the area, so the children of the camp decided to get up just after dawn to be able to get in line for a gallon of water. Moments later, the shelling started and we felt afraid for our children, Layan and Omar,’ she said.
As she reeled from doubts over sending the children to get water, they heard someone shouting that Omar had been hit by the shelling.
‘The first thing he asked when he woke up after surgery was about his friend and cousin who were in line with him for water,’ said Yasmin. ‘They were both killed.’
The family buried Omar’s amputated leg near their tent. He visits the grave every day. ‘My leg went to heaven before me,’ he says.
‘Worst place in the world for children’
Omar had been grappling with deaths and destructions as soon as the war started. In November 2023, as Israel bombed northern Gaza, Layan was injured by shattered glass of the windows all around their house.
‘After a horrific night, we left the house, raising a white piece of cloth so that the Israeli soldiers don’t shoot at us, holding Hatem between my arms and walking with Omar and Layan by my side. On the way out, they saw the beheaded body of their eight-year-old cousin along with other martyrs. They froze in horror and started screaming and crying,’ said Yasmin. Hatem is four.
‘My children have been emotionally disturbed after that experience. Layan struggled with bedwetting and Omar is afraid all the time, even from the sound of a chair hitting the floor.’
At least 39,000 children in Gaza are now left without one or both parents – the largest orphan crisis in modern history.
‘Instead of enjoying their childhood, Palestinian children are living in the worst place in the world for children. Even after the agreed ceasefire, more than 95 children have been killed,’ UNICEF spokesperson Kazem Abu Khalaf told Al Jazeera, adding that more than 4,000 children in Gaza need immediate medical evacuation.
Two years of severe Israeli blockade on food and essential aid has made the humanitarian crisis even worse. ‘Almost 165 children have died due to malnutrition and hunger in Gaza since October 2023,’ Khalaf said.
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) says 1.6 million Palestinians in Gaza, or 77 percent of its population, including about 800,000 children, will continue to face acute food insecurity in 2026.
‘On cold days, it hurts even more’
Among the children in desperate need of nutrition is Rahaf Al Najjar, who is also 13 like Omar.
Rahaf was fetching food for her five siblings in northwest Gaza’s Sudaniya area in September last year when fire from an Israeli quadcopter pierced both her legs.
‘She is healing slowly. I am only able to provide her four eggs a week. She still has inflammation in both her legs and needs more nutritious food to heal faster. I can’t bring meat or chicken for her, I don’t have enough money for that. Sometimes, I bring her a fruit to eat without letting her siblings know about it,’ Rahaf’s 35-year-old mother Buthayna Al Najjar told Al Jazeera at their tent in Jabalia.
Rahaf says the ongoing harsh winter has made her injury worse. ‘On cold days, it hurts even more. I feel electric‑like jolts in my leg. I need to take a medicine to feel better and be able to sleep,’ she told Al Jazeera.
Rahaf witnessed the killing of her father Ghassan Al Najjar, who, she says, ‘used to pamper her more than her other siblings’.
Ghassan died in an Israeli drone strike on November 5, 2024 while he was pulling the body of his cousin at Jabalia camp. Buthayna says Rahaf was able to crawl to her wounded father and dragged his body inside a tent.
‘Her father was still alive. He told her: ‘Be strong, my daughter, and say salam to your mom’. Then he took his last breath while she was still holding him, screaming and crying,’ the mother recalled.
Rahaf says she misses her father most when she is hungry or in pain. She also misses school. ‘I wish I could get back to school. I miss drawing and PE classes,’ she told Al Jazeera.
Buthayna says she has no money left for her children’s education. ‘I sold my mobile phone after losing my husband, so I could get my kids some food,’ she said.
Fears of losing ‘a whole generation’
Interrupted education and a loss of familiar routines have worsened feelings of uncertainty and helplessness among Gaza’s children, who have lost two years of schooling due to the bombing and displacement, and are forced to live in tents and help in fetching food and water for their displaced families.
‘We have lost more than 20,000 students in the Israeli war during two years of aggression,’ Jawad Shiekh-Khalil, director of education in western Gaza, told Al Jazeera. ‘Ninety percent of the Ministry of Education’s buildings have been completely destroyed in the Israeli bombardment, and the remaining ones have turned into shelters for the displaced families.’
He said they have implemented a new strategy, called an ‘Emergency Plan’, to make up for the education they have missed for two years.
‘Since the ceasefire, Israel has restricted entry of school supplies. Students can’t find paper, pencils, notebooks, or even chalk. We have almost 400 registered educational points – most of them are tents spread across the Strip, for about 150,000 students,’ Shiekh-Khalil said.
UNICEF’s Khalaf also said they are launching a back-to-learning programme to get Gaza’s children to resume their education and ‘make sure they don’t forget what they have learned before’.
‘We can’t wait to lose a whole generation,’ he said.
‘Traumatised children’
Bahzad Al Akhras, a child and adolescent psychiatrist in Gaza, told Al Jazeera that losing academic education for two years affects children’s cognitive, emotional, and social development.
‘Being away from school and having schools as shelters affects how children perceive the school as related to crowdedness and harsh living conditions,’ he said. ‘A student will not be able to develop cognitive functions adequately when away from the academic environment and peer support.’
Al Akhras said the genocidal war has impacted the children of Gaza in several ways.
‘The direct impact is seen in children who were trapped under the rubble, children who sustained severe injuries, orphaned children, and those who had experiences with the Israeli soldiers at the checkpoints. The indirect impact is seen in the collapse of the education system as well as the ongoing starvation,’ he said.
The psychiatrist said children, unlike adults, are unable to express themselves verbally, often displaying behavioral manifestations of trauma.
‘Traumatised children show symptoms of behavioral changes. They become isolated or hyperactive, disobedient, more violent, or distracted, while some have problems with memory or forgetting. Many have to deal with bed-wetting,’ Al Akhras said.
Omar is undergoing such a trauma. ‘He has begun to lose his hair. He doesn’t sleep well at night. He gets up often, screaming of nightmares or feeling that he has his leg back, and feeling the pain of losing a limb,’ Yasmin told Al Jazeera.
The Palestinian boy says he feels helpless.
‘I suffer a lot when I need to use the toilet with one leg. It hurts a lot. I can’t even carry a packet of vegetables. I fall down,’ he says, hoping to get a prosthetic leg soon.
‘First thing I wish to do after getting a prosthetic limb is to play football and swim in the sea. I love swimming.’