Category: Children of War

Children are paying the heaviest price of this war. These past 7 months have been hell on earth for children in Gaza. They have lost homes, loved ones, the safety to which they have a right – and in many cases, their lives. Children in Gaza are being killed by bombs and bullets at an unprecedented rate. They are dying from hunger and disease at the fastest pace on record.  Almost every child who has managed to survive the past six months of war is now in the line of fire…

Children are paying the heaviest price of this war. These past 7 months have been hell on earth for children in Gaza. They have lost homes, loved ones, the safety to which they have a right – and in many cases, their lives. Children in Gaza are being killed by bombs and bullets at an unprecedented rate. They are dying from hunger and disease at the fastest pace on record.  Almost every child who has managed to survive the past six months of war is now in the line of fire…

OLEH* AND OLENA’S* STORY. Four-year-old friends Oleh and Olena live in Dnipro, eastern Ukraine. Despite their young age, they are no strangers to air raids. A few times a day, the children have to hide in shelters from the air raids. To make children evacuate promptly, teachers have created playful drills. During alarms, they turn on loud music and dress up as fantasy creatures to reduce stress on children. However, often the air raids can last more than two hours, which can cause young children to feel anxious and fearful.…

After more than six months of war, the children of the Gaza Strip have many questions their parents cannot answer. When will the war stop? How many more nights will they sleep on the floor? When can they go back to school? Some still ask after classmates who have been killed. The adults don’t know what to say. They feel helpless, desperate and exhausted, they say — worn out by the challenge of tending to visible wounds and those their children try to hide. To report this story, Washington Post…

In the early years of Hitler’s rule, the Nazis attempted to make life so unpleasant for Jews that they would be forced to emigrate. Yet few other countries were willing to accept an influx of Jewish refugees. Many countries, including Britain, tightened their immigration policies. In the summer of 1938, 32 countries met in Évian, France, to address the growing refugee crisis. But virtually all refused to allow more Jews in. However, 9 November 1938 saw an alarming turning point in Nazi anti-Semitism. Throughout German occupied territory, a wave of…

Soraya Ali witnessed the suffering of children in Gaza earlier this month (Image: Save the Children) On my first day in Rafah, Gaza, my colleague Hawa’s mother had a stroke. With no ambulance available, her mother was driven to a partially functioning hospital. She died two days later. “The sadness from this war killed her,” Hawa later told me. I arrived in Gaza with Save the Children – as part of a convoy of paediatricians, surgeons, and fellow aid workers – to support children affected by the growing humanitarian catastrophe.…