‘I couldn't see his head’


Tragic loss: Many children in Gaza have lost at least one of their parents. — AFP

“THE body was in pieces...the head was far away.”

Jonathan Crickx, the Unicef spokesman for the Palestinian territories vividly remembers his conversation with Ahmad, a 10-year-old Gazan boy who lived with his family in a displacement camp in southern Gaza.

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