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Gaza: Teaching children to stay safe through play | MAG
Home Gaza: Teaching children to stay safe through play Hidden beneath 57 million tons of rubble are thousands of unexploded bombs, turning Gaza into a deadly environment for families.For many children, the city may look different, but the instinct to explore remains the same. What was once familiar has been reduced to rubble, and curiosity can easily take over. A destroyed street can still seem like somewhere to play. A strange object can still spark interest. A shortcut through debris can feel like an adventure. But in Gaza today, a single wrong step can cost a life.That’s why MAG, working through our partner Save Youth Future Society, has delivered more than 30,000 risk education sessions, reaching over half a million people – including over 150,000 children – with vital, life-saving information. Teaching children about danger in Gaza requires more than simple warnings. It requires approaches they can understand and remember, even while living through trauma. Risk education has adapted over time to meet these realities. In the early stages, sessions were short and urgent, focused on immediate threats. As the situation evolved, so did the approach, shifting toward longer, more integrated sessions that combine safety messages with mental health and psychosocial support, recognising the lasting impact of conflict, especially on children.MAG’s Head of Mission for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Chiara Butti, said: “The integration of carefully selected activities that are trauma-informed for children increases the likelihood of them understanding the risks that surround them. "Now in Gaza, all of the risk education sessions have mental health and psychosocial support specialists who pay special attention to children.” At Friends Without Borders Kindergarten and School in Al-Zawaida, the final school day brought together around 120 children. Through a series of structured games and exercises, they learned how to stay safe, particularly when moving around their communities.While the atmosphere was joyful, each activity had a serious purpose: helping children navigate a landscape that has become dangerous in ways no child should ever have to understand.Doaa Hannawi, Save Youth Future Society's Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Specialist in Gaza, said:“Through play, we aim to change children's fear into a protective awareness, with activities like "Safe Path" providing a vital space for them to release their anxieties and learn survival skills in...
How Save the Children is helping children in Gaza right now
Content warning: This article describes injury to children and may be distressing. The stories are shared with permission.Ahmed*, aged 10, was playing outside with friends when an airstrike hit a nearby house. A piece of shrapnel struck his leg and shattered the bone. Several of the friends he was playing with were killed in the same strike.Ahmed has since undergone multiple surgeries. An external metal fixator now supports his leg as it heals. His father, Mohammed*, says the war has had a devastating impact on his son's mental and physical health.Save the Children's Emergency Health Unit is providing life‑saving healthcare to children and families like Ahmed’s in the Gaza Strip. But the scale of what children in Gaza are facing goes far beyond what any single organisation can meet alone.What is happening to children in GazaThe numbers are almost impossible to comprehend.More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza since October 2023 — around one child every hour over nearly two years of war. As of July 2025, over 40,500 children are estimated to have been injured.Gaza is now home to the largest cohort of child amputees in modern history.In the ten weeks after October 2023 alone, over 1,000 children lost one or both legs. Throughout 2024, explosive weapons caused an average of 475 children each month to sustain potentially lifelong disabilities — amputations, burns, complex fractures, traumatic brain injuries and hearing loss.At least 21,000 children now live with permanent disabilities as a result of the conflict.In an area where 2.2 million people are confined to just 365 square kilometres, there is nowhere safe to go.97% of schools in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed. The health system has collapsed. Many children undergo operations without adequate anaesthesia. Prosthetic centres are no longer functioning. Only 12% of essential mobility equipment — like wheelchairs and crutches — is available.Doctors have coined a term for children who arrive at hospitals entirely alone, with no family left to comfort or advocate for them: WCNSF — Wounded Child, No Surviving Family.Despite extreme danger and the destruction of critical infrastructure, Save the Children has maintained operations in Gaza throughout the conflict.Our Emergency Health Unit is delivering life‑saving medical care directly to children and families.We have provided:cash assistance so families can buy food, medicine and essential suppliesclean water where water systems have been destroy...
Autistic children in Gaza: Between the ruins of war and the silence of ...
Constant movement between unstable places, and living in tents or unfinished housing, robbed the child of his sense of safety. With the absence of routine, which is essential for children with autism, his condition deteriorated significantly.
No — it's not over yet. Gaza's... - Save the Children Canada | Facebook
No — it's not over yet. Gaza's children are still cut off from food, water, healthcare, homes, and schools. And with escalating violence in the region, things are only going to get worse. Save the...
