Voices: We couldn’t write obituaries for all the children killed in Gaza, so we marked the lives of just a few
by Richard Hall
Dec 14, 2023
4 minutes
How do you memorialise a life that has only just begun? Perhaps only a parent could be worthy of such a task – someone who has watched their child grow and laugh and change each day in a thousand tiny ways. But what if the parent was killed along with their child? Who, then, can do that story justice?
More than 7,000 young lives have been extinguished in the conflict, a number so large that it obscures the tragedy of each one. The United Nations has called Gaza “a graveyard for children”, but the reality is much worse than that; the scale of the killing has meant that many were not
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