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Life in Gaza, through the voices of its children

Season 2025 Episode 234 | 6m 18s

As many as 132,000 children in Gaza under the age of five are at risk of dying from acute malnutrition between now and next summer, according to a U.N.-backed group of experts. Half of Gaza’s population is children, and many of them have been left scarred, traumatized and forever changed by the war. Nick Schifrin reports. A warning, images in this story are disturbing.

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