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Feb 27, 2026
Exclusive | “World Stood Up for a Monkey, and Forget US”: From Punch the Monkey to Thousands of Orphaned Children in Gaza: How the World Reacts
As global sympathy poured in for a baby monkey abroad, thousands of orphaned children in Gaza continued to grieve in silence under the weight of genocide.
Among them is four-year-old Abood Mhjez, who has asked the same question every night since October 2024: “Where is my dad?” His father was killed in an Israeli strike after the family was forcibly displaced from their home in Sheikh Redwan, Gaza City.
He had left to bring water and food and never returned; friends later found his body in the street. Now living in a tent, Abood waits for him to come home, asks to call him, and says he wants to go to Heaven to see him.
His mother says trauma has consumed her son, he cannot sleep, forgets simple things, stares silently at walls, and breaks down when he sees other children with their fathers.
Psychologists in Gaza describe unprecedented psychological destruction among children after two years of bombardment, starvation, displacement, and siege.
According to Palestinian and UN figures, thousands of children have lost both parents and tens of thousands have lost one, in what officials call the largest orphan crisis in modern history.
UNICEF estimates nearly all of Gaza’s 1.2 million children now require urgent mental health and psychosocial support, as an entire generation grows up marked by grief, fear, and loss.
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