Walking the talk


Displaced Palestinian children wait for a water supply tank to fill their containers amid soaring temperatures at a tent camp in Rafah. — AFP

AT 14, Moaz* already needed to work to contribute to his family’s survival. He helped at a restaurant to earn some money. It wasn’t much but it was something.

One day the authorities raided the restaurant and carted him and many others off to a detention centre. What followed, he said, was nothing short of torture.

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