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Children in Gaza find themselves having to work to survive, sacrificing education and childhood dreams.

Children fill buckets with water outside their tent in Gaza City on January 20, 2026.

As medical students in Gaza, we are taught how to save lives with nothing and how to make impossible decisions.

Palestinians who were injured in Israeli fire as they gathered near a food aid centre, receive care at Khan Yunis' Nasser hospital in the southern Gaza Strip on June 17, 2025. Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli forces killed at least 47 people and wounded more than 200, as thousands of Palestinians gathered to receive flour at an aid centre in the morning, adding "Israeli drones fired at the citizens... some minutes later, Israeli tanks fired several shells at the citizens, which led to a large number of martyrs and wounded". (Photo by AFP)

We are no longer able to save our wounded through blood donations. Starvation has made our blood unusable.

Medics clean the floor of blood as others care for injured Palestinians in a hospital.