Palestinian children in Gaza are working to support their families across the war-torn territory,
KHAN YUNIS – Some crush rocks into gravel, others sell cups of coffee: where the World Bank says nearly everyone is now poor.
His customers, he said, are grieving families who use the gravel to erect fragile steles above the graves of their loved ones, many of them buried hastily. Roughly half of Gaza's population is under 18, and while Palestinian law officially prohibits people under 15 from working, children could regularly be found working in the agriculture and construction sectors before October 7.
"From walking barefoot through the rubble, my brother got an infected leg from a piece of shrapnel," Khamis told AFP.Aid workers have repeatedly sounded the alarm about a health system that was struggling before the war and is now unable to cope with an influx of wounded and victims of growing child malnutrition.The paltry sums Khamis and Sami manage to earn do little to defray the costs of survival.
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