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war-related injuries or psychological [trauma](/news/2025/10/31/acute-trauma-the-ever-present-wounds-of-gazas-children-from-israels-war). For some, the cause is physical – head injuries, neurological damage or blast trauma. For others, there is no visible wound. Their silence follows repeated exposure to violence that
war](/news/2026/4/26/state-of-war-why-israel-has-escalated-attacks-in-gaza) on Gaza. What affected her the most was famine and the prolonged shortage of food and nutritional supplements, which severely weakened her body. “Throughout my entire pregnancy, I didn’t taste meat, chicken
mother never lost hope that her son was still alive. “Everyone told me we needed to perform the absentee funeral prayer, but I refused. My heart told me Eid was alive,” Maha Abu Shaar said
war, we have lost about 19 workers from water facilities who were carrying out repair and distribution work,” said Omar Shatat, the deputy director of Gaza’s coastal municipalities water utility. “Targeting has become part
Gaza resulting from the war with Israel." **Feature Photography** "Awarded to Jahi Chikwendiu of *The Washington Post* for a heart-wrenching and achingly beautiful photo essay on a young family welcoming the birth of their
mothers hugging children they have been prevented from seeing for so long. But there has been no happy reunion for Mohammed. He went with his relatives to the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis
impact of “growing up incomplete.”](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/4000x2667+0+0/resize/1100/quality/50/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F8e%2Fc5%2F023cc7ed45aebf41b01ad200a32c%2Fworld-press-8.jpg) Valeria, age 5, plays behind a curtain at her aunt's house. She is raised solely by her mother. In her region, nearly a third of households