For children in Gaza, a ceasefire deal can't come soon enough. Most have already lost family, friends and their homes. They struggle to find food and water for themselves and their families. And with schools closed, they're also losing their education.
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00:00This is Khaldun. He's 10 years old.
00:04His family was driven from Beit Hanun in northern Gaza at the start of the war.
00:09Now they live in makeshift tents in central Gaza.
00:13My wish is to go back to school so that we can write and learn.
00:20But the Israelis want us to be ignorant.
00:23We want to learn and become doctors.
00:29Now, instead of going to class, he queues up at one of Gaza's charity soup kitchens to get a meal for his family.
00:38We had never been to a charity in our lives.
00:43And now we go there to get food.
00:46We had money to buy food, but now we have to go to the soup kitchen.
00:53Often, Khaldun has to go to several places to get enough for his family.
00:58And he must fight for every bite.
01:06Mohammad is also 10 years old. He can barely carry his family's daily supply of water.
01:14I wait in line for an hour or two, and if I don't get water, we might die of thirst.
01:22He too misses his old life and his school, and he lives in constant fear.
01:31I'm afraid of the war and of the rockets, and I'm afraid for my future and of returning to school, that it will be bombed.
01:38After waiting so long, Khaldun is exhausted and still hungry.
01:44I wish the war would end. I'm afraid of the bombing and everything.
01:53I want the war to end, so I can go back to our home and back to school.
01:58The future is gone now. There's nothing left.
02:05One of thousands of kids here watching their lives slip away,
02:10with little hope that things will get better any time soon.