Gaza's children: 'Israel is creating a new generation of enemies'
She seemed to represent the collective suffering of Gaza's children: a little girl, eyes cast down, a tear edging beneath her lashes, blood smeared over her forehead, anguish written into her face.
Her picture was taken in the aftermath of the shelling of what was supposed to be a refuge from war, a UN school in Jabaliya. "The world stands disgraced," declared a shocked UN chief after 15 people died and more than 100 were injured.
The girl whose image spread around the world is Najia Warshagha, who at the age of nine is already a veteran of three bloody and devastating conflicts in Gaza. Over four weeks of this war, at least 447 children have been killed and 2,744 injured, according to the UN. Thousands more – Najia among them – are deeply traumatised.
Nine days after the shelling of the school, Najia perches on a sofa at the relative's house where she is staying, a solemn child whose hands twist into tight little balls as she haltingly recalls what happened. "I was in classroom number one, sleeping. There was a huge boom. My mother hugged us, then another missile landed. I was screaming and crying," she says.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/11/gaza-children-israel-new-generation-enemies-najia-warshagha
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…this just means a new generation of terrorists to be suppressed, and a reason why the occupation must be continued indefinitely.
