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April 6, 2008

Gaza’s Crushed Childhoods

by Queen Rania Al Abdullah, The Daily News, Egypt - Ayman is a soft-spoken 14-year-old boy in Jabalia City, Gaza. His family is poor, and his parents have already sold almost all their furniture to pay for food and schooling for their children. Recently, after collecting a government food handout, Ayman’s father, who has been unemployed since March 2006, had to sell the milk to pay for the journey back home.

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