GAZA STUDENTS' GAZE : SORROW PRECIS

 

ON the morning of May 15. - Miran Mohammad was helping her grandfather bake bread at home in Beit Lahia, a town in northern Gaza.

Given the scarcity of food, the 7-year-old Miran was hungry and was eager to have a piece of the freshly baked bread. She wouldn't get the chance.

Miran's mother insisted she wait to eat until the family returned to their home. As they entered the house, it was hit in an airstrike, collapsing on top of them and causing them both serious problems and injuries.

Miran is now a patient at AI-Ahli Arab Hospital, doctors tell us her legs are permanently damaged.

She is one of the more than 3,700  children/students under 18-years-old in Gaza reported to have been wounded since the end of the recent sease-fire, in mid-March.

OVER 1,300 other children/students are reported to have been killed in hostilities during the same period.

Through nearly 20 months of war, nearly  17,000 children/students have been reported killed and more than 34,000 have been wounded - around one in every 20 children in Gaza - making it the deadliest conflict for children/students in recent memory.

The World Students Society thanks Catherine Russell for her Opinion.