The world has broken its promises about rebuilding #Gaza – and the #children will suffer!

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The world has broken its promises about rebuilding Gaza – and the children will suffer ~ Chris Gunness, The Guardian, Saturday 21 February.

Six months after international donors pledged billions after the last war, the cash has not materialised, lives remain shattered and the desperate suffering goes on.

Jibril, left, lost two of his four grandchildren to hypothermia in the storms last month. The family now live in a tiny plastic-covered wooden structure in Beit Hanoun with a blanket for a door. Photograph: Belal Hasna

Baby Salma died of hypothermia at just 40 days old. Her body was drenched with freezing rainwater. It was frozen “like ice-cream”. Gaza was hit by a severe winter storm called “Huda” in January. Salma was its youngest victim.

I meet Salma’s mother, Mirvat, and 14 members of her extended family in the very place, indeed the room, where Salma slept during her last…

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