The Scars of War: Mosul’s Children Haunted a Year After Islamic State Was Routed
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By Sheeffah Shiraz
The New Arab
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Featured image: Nine-year-old Rima was deeply affected after the death of her mother [Sam Tarling/Save the Children]
“I wake up and I witness war every day… I don’t want to go through another war.” These are the words of 10-year-old Rahaf, a child from Iraq who has known nothing but death and destruction.
Rahaf lost both her parents and younger sister, along with ten other family members, when an airstrike hit their home in West Mosul in 2017. She was rescued from the rubble, but is haunted by the memories, with everyday noises reminding her of bombs falling.
“The most important thing to me is that the war doesn’t happen again. I don’t want it to happen again. I don’t want others to...