"Israel's genocidal war has destroyed families and livelihoods across Gaza, leaving more than 39,000 children orphaned, while the widespread destruction has deprived over 80 percent of the workforce of their sources of income. Amid deepening poverty and the absence of alternatives, an increasing number of children have been forced into the streets, resorting to begging as their only means of survival."
"Ahmed has now become the sole provider for his small family after his father was killed in July while going to collect U.S.-backed humanitarian aid. He stood in one of the camp's streets on the day I met him, begging passersby as rain fell and his feet remained bare. When asked why he was on the street, he quietly told me: "I need three shekels to buy a loaf of bread.""
Israel's genocidal war in Gaza has orphaned more than 39,000 children and destroyed livelihoods, leaving over 80 percent of the workforce without income. Economic collapse, loss of breadwinners, and weak social protection have forced many children into street begging to survive. Hundreds of children reportedly beg in Gaza as families lose homes and cannot rebuild due to occupation seizures and infrastructure destruction. Displacement and inability to return to original land push families south. Individual cases show children as sole providers after parental deaths, barefoot and exposed, pleading for a few shekels to buy bread.
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