Clowns try to put smiles back on faces of Gaza children

Nuseirat:The children of Gaza have little to eat, have had to flee their homes and have survived nearly six months of terrifying Israeli bombardment....

Nuseirat: The children of Gaza have little to eat, have had to flee their homes and have survived nearly six months of terrifying Israeli bombardment.

But for a few precious minutes children in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the centre of the Gaza Strip laughed and yelped with joy.

Clowns and acrobats performed for them in the courtyard of a school where their displaced families have been sheltering the bombing.

The unrelenting war has taken a terrible toll on Gaza's children. Most of the more than 32,414 people killed in the besieged territory since the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel have been women and children.

But for once they could forget all that horror as performers in rabbit costumes led them in a conga, pushing one injured boy in a wheelchair.