‘Wake up screaming’: Gaza’s children traumatised by Israeli war

Thousands of children in Gaza suffer from trauma after the 11-day Israeli onslaught on the besieged Palestinian enclave.

As Gaza tries to recover from the deadly 11-day Israeli attack, mothers and mental health workers have raised concerns that the psychological effects of the violence will long linger among the children in the Strip. Hala Shehada, a 28-year-old mother from northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoun area, told Al Jazeera when the air strikes started hitting Gaza earlier this month she found herself reliving the tragic memories of the 2014 Israeli offensive as if it were “yesterday”. “The latest offensive on Gaza took me back to the darkest memories from six years ago when my husband was killed,” said Shehada.