Barely surviving: More than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, many of them children. — AFP
THE war in the Gaza Strip had barely begun when nine-year-old Khaled Joudeh suffered an unimaginable loss. His mother, father, older brother and baby sister, along with dozens of other relatives, were all killed in an Israeli airstrike on their home.
In the months that followed, Khaled tried to be brave, his uncle, Mohammad Faris, recalled. He would comfort his younger brother Tamer, who, like Khaled, had survived the Oct 22 strike that killed their family. But Tamer, seven, was left badly injured, with a broken back and a broken leg, and was in constant pain.
