A wounded Palestinian child uses crutches out of an ambulance at the Rafah border crossing in Egypt after being evacuated from the Gaza Strip, on December 25. — AFP
A wounded Palestinian child uses crutches out of an ambulance at the Rafah border crossing in Egypt after being evacuated from the Gaza Strip, on December 25. — AFP

A wounded Palestinian child is wheeled into an ambulance at the Rafah border crossing in Egypt after being evacuated from the Gaza Strip, on December 25. — AFP
A wounded Palestinian child is wheeled into an ambulance at the Rafah border crossing in Egypt after being evacuated from the Gaza Strip, on December 25. — AFP

A wounded Palestinian child stands near an ambulance at the Rafah border crossing in Egypt after being evacuated from the Gaza Strip, on December 25. — AFP
A wounded Palestinian child stands near an ambulance at the Rafah border crossing in Egypt after being evacuated from the Gaza Strip, on December 25. — AFP

Palestinian boy Naseem Mohra, a 10-year-old kidney patient from northern Gaza who fled south with his family when Israel began the ground assault against Hamas and was separated from his mother, waits to undergo kidney dialysis at a hospital in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, December 24. — Reuters
Palestinian boy Naseem Mohra, a 10-year-old kidney patient from northern Gaza who fled south with his family when Israel began the ground assault against Hamas and was separated from his mother, waits to undergo kidney dialysis at a hospital in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, December 24. — Reuters

A child looks on as displaced Palestinians, who fled their houses due to Israeli strikes, shelter in a tent camp in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, December 25. — Reuters
A child looks on as displaced Palestinians, who fled their houses due to Israeli strikes, shelter in a tent camp in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, December 25. — Reuters

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