Children of Gaza… When Innocence Is Born into Genocide

Children of Gaza… When Innocence Is Born into Genocide

In Gaza, children are not born to live their childhood—
They are born to fight for survival.

Since the genocide began, children in Gaza have been stripped of their most basic rights.
No food…
No water…
No schools…
No dreams…
Not even a small toy to distract them from the sound of missiles.

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Hunger Steals Childhood

Many children go to sleep with empty stomachs,
waking up to a question with no answer:
“Mama… what are we eating today?”
And the mother, broken and helpless, strokes their heads and whispers, “Tomorrow will be better.”

A child doesn’t understand war, but he feels hunger.
He doesn’t know politics, but he sees the pain in his mother’s eyes as she pretends to be strong.

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Schools Turned into Graves

Schools were once places for learning and laughter—
Today, they are shelters for the displaced,
or rubble filled with burned books and schoolbags stained with dust and blood.

An entire generation has been cut off from education.
A generation that doesn’t know the alphabet…
but has memorized the sounds of drones and the names of bombs.

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No Toys—Only Bombs

In most of the world, toys bring joy to children.
In Gaza, planes arrive only to steal that joy forever.

A child who once played in the dirt
now fears digging a hole…
in case he finds his brother’s remains buried beneath.

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Dreams Extinguished Before They’re Born

In Gaza, children don’t dream of becoming doctors or teachers—
They dream of a piece of bread…
or a ceiling that doesn’t collapse on them while they sleep.

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Gaza Writes Its Pain with the Cries of Its Children

The world may think children don’t understand—
but their faces say everything:
Fear… hunger… heartbreak…
And yet, they smile sometimes…
Not because they’re okay, but because they don’t know how to express pain.

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This is not just war…
It is a massacre against innocence.

Who will save Gaza’s children?
Who will return to them what can never return?
When childhood is stolen—
It cannot be restored.
And Gaza is bleeding a whole generation of dreams that never had a chance to live.