The assessment conducted by rights groups in Gaza found that some 96 percent of children surveyed felt their death was imminent while 49 percent expressed a desire to die, reports Al Jazeera.
It also found that 92 percent of children were “not accepting of reality”, 79 percent suffered from nightmares and 73 percent displayed symptoms of aggression.
Helen Pattinson, chief executive of War Child UK, called the report “one of the most horrifying insights into the mental wellbeing of children anywhere in the world”.
She said Gaza’s children are bearing the brunt of a war they had no role in starting, suffering from both the destruction of physical infrastructure and the psychological scars left by war’s brutality.
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