Bombardment damaged Fatima’s bedroom and much of her family’s home in Gaza. The ceiling that remains leaks when it rains, and the living room windows look out onto rubble. She still hung decorations on the walls.

Every morning she fetches water for her family. Neighbors come to charge their phones in the living room, which is now the family’s only income. Three times a week she goes to a learning space in a tent, where children from the neighborhood try to make up for the school the war interrupted.

Fatima is one of nearly a million children living in Gaza. Asked what she wants to tell the world, she doesn’t talk about fear: “I am proud to be a girl from Gaza. And I want to send a message: we will remain strong, no matter what happens.”

Source: UNICEF USA, “A 12-Year-Old’s Resilience in Gaza,” March 2026

Jamalat Dabban is four years old. Her family was forced to leave Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, and in May an attack hit the tent next to theirs. Jamalat lost her left leg. Her mother and brother were injured too.

Before, her mother says, she was “a very active child who loved to play.” Now she needs help with almost every movement. She is waiting for a prosthetic leg, but they are scarce in Gaza, and a growing child needs a new one again and again. Earlier this year the UN said only about 300 prosthetic limbs had reached Gaza since December 2025, against more than 6,000 recorded amputations.

Jamalat still doesn’t understand that the loss is permanent. Sometimes she asks her mother to give her leg back, so she can run and play with her brother again.

Source: Anadolu Agency, August 2026, including UN figures on prosthetics

Talha was twelve when Zamzam camp in North Darfur came under attack. He saw shooting and people running in panic. When he got home, the house was empty. He searched the schools where people were hiding, but couldn’t find his family.

Believing they had fled to the town of Tawila, he followed the crowds there on foot. A family took him in, but after seven days they left too, and he was alone again. When he spoke to Save the Children, he didn’t know whether his family was alive. His only wish was to go back to El Fasher and be with them again.

Talha is not the only one. Hundreds of children have arrived in Tawila without their parents. Some lost them in attacks, some were separated while fleeing, and some were taken in along the way by women they had never met. Aid groups warn that children traveling alone face serious risks of violence, hunger and exploitation.

Sources: Save the Children, July 2025; TIME. Talha’s name was changed by Save the Children to protect his identity.