Gaza Boy, 12, Works 12 Hours a Day as War Nears 4th Year

1 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Sep 22

Ramadan Ghaban, 12, says he spends his days in a tent camp in Nuseirat, then works 12-hour shifts at a beach cafe to help feed his siblings.
10 shekels a day — about £2.45 — is his pay for moving tables, cleaning and raking sand, while his family also depends on trucked-in water they store in leaking bottles after rats chewed their containers.
His father, once a strawberry harvester in Beit Lahia, was killed while helping relatives evacuate; the family says they could not recover his body from the rubble for four months because of shelling.
Nearly four years into the war, Ramadan says he has not attended school since it began and fears both renewed bombing and another famine after earlier periods when his family went hungry for days.