Young Gaza girl loses hair due to stress of war

The ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip is taking its toll on a young local girl, with the persistent fear amid an onslaught of bombings causing her to lose her hair, symbolizing both the psychological and physical scars that have been brought by the nearly year-long Israel-Hamas war.

Clutching her favorite doll, the young girl expressed wished “for all her hair will grow back before her birthday on the 5th of October.” The Palestinian death toll from ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since last October has now risen to 41,455, Gaza-based health authorities said in a statement on Monday.