I have a question about Palestinian children.

Yep. This is why the whole idea of ‘bombing Hamas’ is a nonsense. For every Hamas member they manage to bomb, a hundred little boys are injured or lose a parent and grow up wanting revenge. If you were a Gazan child right now, what would you want to be when you grow up?

What Israel is doing in Gaza makes no sense unless their plan is to kill everyone there. I hope that is not the plan.

Yes it all feels so hopeless as surely just perpetuating hate or at least ill feeling on both sides. How many generations will this take to solve? If ever?

I am also curious about the comment above re Hamas in civilian areas as thanks to Israeli occupation the whole of Gaza is civilian areas as it's so utterly overcrowded that people are living everywhere. I absolutely abhor Hamas and everything they stand for but suggesting there is space for them to go and build their big terror HQ elsewhere is misunderstanding the geography of Gaza.

I really hope amongst the devastation emerges the new political leaders of the future who want to see an end to Hamas and a bright future for Palestine.

You don't seriously expect a 5 year old to either understand or process the politics of this do you? All they will know is that they have lost their family and they are terrified.

I think you think you sound compassionate but you don't, you sound utterly callous.

I would no more expect a Palestinian child to rationally analyse the causes of the violence than I would an Israeli child who survived Oct 7th.

There was a news few days ago about children in Palestina how most of them suffer from ptsd

Around 90% of children visiting paediatric hospitals complain of anxiety. Many are suffering from anxiety, and it’s certainly something we haven’t seen in the past. The recognition is beginning to dawn that this issue will be much more prolonged than before,” Grossman said.
In Gaza, a child aged 15 has experienced five periods of intense bombardment in their life: 2008-9, 2012, 2014, 2021 and now 2023.
Studies conducted after earlier conflicts have shown a majority of children in Gaza exhibiting symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
After Operation Pillar of Defence in 2012, Unicef, the UN children’s agency, found that 82% of children were either continuously or usually in fear of imminent death.
Among Unicef’s other findings were: 91% of children reported sleeping disturbances during the conflict; 94% said they slept with their parents; 85% reported appetite changes; 82% felt angry; 97% felt insecure; 38% felt guilty; 47% were biting their nails; 76% reported itching or feeling ill.
After Operation Cast Lead, the three-week war in 2008-09, a study by the Gaza community mental health programme (GCMHP) found that 75% of children over the age of six were suffering from one or more symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, with almost one in 10 ticking off every criterion.

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/22/children-in-gaza-developing-severe-trauma-after-16-days-of-bombing

There is enough wrongdoing for the children in this terrible mess to be indoctrinated with hate in multiple directions. I wish we could help them to have a different future

Equally, why would they support Hamas for its evil and idiotic attack on Israel, it’s mandate to wipe out all Jews, it’s decision to base its military operations in civilian areas, it’s lack of any plan that would help its population and it’s refusal to return those it has kidnapped which would immediately result in a ceasefire? These issues are complicated and there is scope for anger to be levied in multiple directions. It is utterly tragic for the children whose lives are caught up in this and who will just reap more suffering now.

Yes of course, this is a massive recruiting tool for Hamas. Why else did Hamas commit the atrocity that it did? This is exactly what they wanted. Played out on the world stage. Israel has fallen into their trap.