How to Survive a Warzone: The lives of 4 kids surviving in Gaza

A BBC film follows children over nine months including one boy, 11, who volunteered at al-Aqsa hospital.

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But at an age when children are typically found in a classroom, Zakaria is volunteering at one of Gaza's few functioning hospitals - al-Aqsa.

As a succession of ambulances ferrying victims of the war between Israel and Hamas pull up outside the facility in the central town of Deir al-Balah, Zakaria clears a way through the crowds to retrieve newly arrived patients and rush them inside for treatment.

Moments later he is running through the corridors of the hospital with a stretcher and later carries a young child inside to the emergency room.

Several of his schoolfriends have been killed since the conflict started and hanging around the hospital means Zakaria witnesses shocking scenes. He says that once, after an Israeli strike, he saw a boy in front of him burn to death in a fire.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y7ndlrl3vo

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