Ameer (9) sponsored by World Vision Australia, lost his father and uncle as the war raged outside their family home in north Gaza.

As humanitarian access slowly eases in Gaza, World Vision has started activities to help children cope with the emotional trauma that escalated from their exposure to violence, death and loss during the recent Israeli incursion. Emergency psychosocial interventions will reach 2,200 children in Gaza. Photo by Judy Moore.

Addressing children’s psychosocial wellbeing in Gaza is a priority for World Vision, which has started programmes to help children cope with what they have experienced – and so painfully lost in the recent bloody conflict.