I couldn't bring myself to sketch a portrait of a particular person this week. There was no one to embody the tragedy unfolding in Gaza. I decided instead to illustrate the picture of a Palestinian child resisting the Israeli onslaught devastating Gaza and struggling amid the humanitarian catastrophe enveloping the Strip. The children of Gaza are being sacrificed at the bloodstained altar of Israeli oppression and savagery.

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