Sila is 4 years old. She lost her parents, her siblings… and she suffered terrible injuries to her right leg.They bombed my house while my family and I were sleeping in the living room. Then the doctor came and had to amputate it,” he reveals.

And like her, more and more Gazans are suffering the consequences of attacks that are set to last a year. Since the start of the war, Israel has already left 10,000 Gazans with disabilities. Every day, 10 children suffer amputationsAnd as is the case with Sila, many have made their home in a school, which today serves as a shelter for dozens of Gazan families. There, she and other children try to play as little as possible due to the offensive.

“It is so important to them that even in a situation like Gazawhich is probably one of the most extreme situations that are occurring in the entire world, as soon as there is the slightest opportunity, That girl or boy plays, finds that space“, says Chema Vera, Executive Director of UNICEF Spain.

A space that needs to be secured, because play is absolutely essential for children: “It is for their cognitive development. It is for their mental health. It is a right and it is something they should always have access to.”

Today, their football pitch is the dirt and their swings are the rubble. A place surrounded by destruction where their imagination still makes its way. It is the little they have left and it is also being taken away from them.

“They are not safe places, they cannot play where there have been bombings.where there may be, where there may be rubble, where they may fall. They play at the minute and in the place where they can, but these are not conditions in which they can play,” he adds.

Children who, through play, laughter, music… the only thing they are doing is precisely that, being children.