Israel began imposing a land, sea and air blockade on the Gaza Strip in 2007. Since then, an average 16-year-old living in the Palestinian enclave has experienced at least five long-range Israeli attacksaccording to the Al Jazzera network.

In 2008, at the age of one year, a child would live through 22 days of devastating air and ground attacks. Almost 1,400 Palestinians, including 320 children, were killed during the Israeli military operation Compact Pencil.

By the age of five, in 2012, he would survive an eight-day Israeli attack that killed more than 80 people, including 30 children.

In 2014, at the age of seven, the child would experience a 50-day Israeli attack that killed at least 2,310 Palestinians, including 551 children.

At the age of 14, in 2021, the teenager would witness an Israeli attack that lasted 11 days and killed 260 Palestinians, including 67 children.

Today, at the age of 16, he is living through Israel’s war raging in the Gaza Strip that followed Hamas’s attack on Israel. It has killed at least 16,015 Palestinians, with about 70% of the dead in Gaza being women and childrenaccording to Palestinian enclave authorities.