The look on people’s faces in Gaza reveals “the trauma, the stress, as if sorrow and sadness have taken root here in Gaza”, according to James Elder, the UN Children’s Fund (Unicef) spokesperson who has joined the aid effort in the besieged enclave.

In a first-hand account of meeting with children and families there during the current temporary truce, he wrote: “It’s horrendous. Every single child here, I can say that with some certainty, they all will need some kind of mental support.”

“Hospitals are full. There are overflowing emergency wards with boys and girls with shrapnel wounds, horrendous burns,” Elder said.

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