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Gaza's children traumatised and ‘full of pain’ after Israel's 15-month genocide, teacher warns
Award-winning English teacher Asma Mustafa tells the Star about her young students' physical and psychological wounds
Asma Mustafa reads a book to children in Gaza

A GAZAN teacher who taught thousands of children in displacement camps has told of a lost generation whose trauma cannot be healed.

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