‘Mama, I’m tired - I want to die:’ Israel’s strikes in Gaza leave a generation of Palestinian children traumatized

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By Zahid Mahmood, Abeer Salman and Tareq Al Hilou, CNN Immitate the movement to comb hair locks with a brush, Sama Tubail looks in a mirror and starts crying. “I’m so sad because I don’t have a single strand of hair to comb with my brush,” Sama told CNN with her head in my hands. “I hold the mirror because I want to brush my hair: I really want to comb my hair again.” For the eight-year-old girl, the movement brings back memories of a life befor…

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‘Mama, I’m tired - I want to die:’ Israel’s strikes in Gaza leave a generation of Palestinian children traumatized

Mimicking the motion of combing locks of hair with a brush, Sama Tubail stares at her reflection in a mirror and begins to cry.

‘Mama, I’m tired - I want to die’: Israel’s strikes in Gaza leave a generation of Palestinian children traumatized

Mimicking the motion of combing locks of hair with a brush, Sama Tubail stares at her reflection in a mirror and begins to cry. She’s one of many children in Gaza deeply affected by war.

The story of an 8-year-old Palestinian girl, who asks to die in the midst of the war in Gaza, exemplifies how an entire generation was traumatized by the conflict.