The War on Gaza’s Children

By Saree Makdisi

September 22, 2007

Israel’s sanctions are leaving a generation of Palestinian children poorly educated and hungry.

An entire generation of Palestinians in Gaza is growing up stunted: physically and nutritionally stunted because they are not getting enough to eat; emotionally stunted because of the pressures of living in a virtual prison and facing the constant threat of destruction and displacement; intellectually and academically stunted because they cannot concentrate — or, even if they can, because they are trying to study and learn in circumstances that no child should have to endure.