Traumatic Effects On Children

Despite the wars, many people do not understand how it will inflict on children. Traumatic events affect deeply into a child’s mind. According to UNICEF reports (2010), more than 2 million children have died as a direct result of armed conflict over the last decade and at least 6 million children have been seriously injured. Trauma and psychological problems hinder children’s lives by putting a barrier to having no childhood, their intended goals are vanished to be an adult, their coping in life after a period of hardship creates a gap between their reality and fantasy world.
Many children are forced to be in a camp for the rest of their lives. [The rest of their lives some see the barb wires, many want someone to care.] However, their lives
Most of them can not get to the right facility because they are not allowed to be near Israelis and everything is controlled by the Israelis. [According to the article, Living in the crossfire: Effects of exposure to political violence on Palestinian and Israeli mothers and children, “According to UNICEF reports (2010) more than 2 million children have died as a result of armed conflict over the last decade and at least 6 million children have been seriously injured.” (Sarit Guttmann-Steinmetz, Anat Shoshani, Khaled Farhan Moran aliman and Gilad Hirschberger)] Children of the refugee camps suffer and [in desperation of survival was death.] They had nowhere to go. The conflict was so intense between Israel and Palestine that it created such horrific scenes of innocent children dying. Their lives were not safe for them on Earth [that lead them to leave forever.]? Similarly, in the article Living in the crossfire: Effects of exposure to political violence on Palestinian and Israeli mothers and children, “More than 1 million have been orphaned or separated from their families, and an estimated 20 million children have been forced to flee their homes because of conflict”. (Sarit Guttmann-Steinmetz, Anat Shoshani, Khaled Farhan, Moran Aliman and Gilad Hirschberger include the page number) their childhood home was gone and their lives were gone. Who else do they have? They were forced to flee or else
“ When the Americans liberated Buchenwald they offered to send me home, but I rejected the offer. I didn't want to relive my childhood, to see our house in foreign hands” (Weisel 11). Elisha did not want to go back because there was nothing left for him there. He was snatched away from his childhood to a prisoner where he loses his family and his childhood. He is corrupted now and he will not be himself as he was before. As the child [in the film] explains that we do not know how someone else feels unless we were actually there first hand. Children at a young age should experience [the live]? of enjoying their lives but children who experienced all at first hand will not be the same person as before. ? [Another person] knowing their story does not mean we know what they went through.Their childhood [brittling]? down and all they lost was their innocence and becoming a [new Child.] Similarly, in Land of Sad Oranges, the child exclaims, “As I left my house behind, I left my childhood behind....”(Kanafani 80). The child was leaving to become a refugee never looking back to his home, the land he called Palestine. He can never come back home because the Israelis took his home and he is forced off of