Gaza’s Children And The Israeli Offensive Of 2014: Two Years Later

Palestine Center Brief No. 296 (August 12, 2016)

By Zeina Azzam

“During Israel’s 2014 assault on Gaza and its 1.8 million inhabitants, Palestinian poet Khaled Juma penned a moving poem titled ‘Oh Rascal Children of Gaza’. The first few lines were about the chaos and mischief that the children had perpetrated in their neighborhoods before the war, but the wistful ending laments, ‘Come back/and scream as you want/and break all the vases./Steal all the flowers./Come back./Just come back…'”

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This article originally appeared in The Huffington Post.

Zeina Azzam is Executive Director of the Palestine Center. 

The views in this brief are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of The Jerusalem Fund.