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Reham Qudaih – 14 year old girl from Khan Yunis in Gaza with her father Tareq Qudaih who participated in the Gaza protest “The Great March of Return” on Friday 30th March 2018 where he was shot in the leg. Reham is now suffering from nightmares and flashbacks from the previous wars in Gaza. Photo: Ahmed Mashharawi/NRC

Children living in the Gaza Strip are experiencing unusually high rates of nightmares and are showing increasing signs of psychosocial deterioration as a result of the violent response to the Gaza protests. 60 percent of Palestinian children surveyed by Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) were suffering from traumatic nightmares, up from 56 percent a month before.