Students from Gaza roam the corridors of the school at the Abu Dhabi humanitarian city on Oct. 21, 2025. (Credit: Sophie Guignon/L'Orient Today)
At first glance, it looks like any other school. Children shout in the hallways, drawings cover the walls, the bell calls them out to recess, and the smell of disinfectant lingers on the floors.Look closer, though, and the sense of normal life gives way to a harsher truth. Every student here has survived hell on earth in Gaza. You might pass a child with metal rods in their limbs or a teenager whose face still bears the scars from shrapnel wounds. A testimony from inside Gaza Diaries from Gaza: 'He's surviving only on medical fluids' There is also 9-year-old Nada, whose pants and bright smile hide legs that suffered a third-degree burn from an Israeli strike. At the Emirates Humanitarian City, a community marked by war nevertheless asserts the will to live. In science class, surrounded by about 30 students, 14-year-old Layane,...
At first glance, it looks like any other school. Children shout in the hallways, drawings cover the walls, the bell calls them out to recess, and the smell of disinfectant lingers on the floors.Look closer, though, and the sense of normal life gives way to a harsher truth. Every student here has survived hell on earth in Gaza. You might pass a child with metal rods in their limbs or a teenager whose face still bears the scars from shrapnel wounds. A testimony from inside Gaza Diaries from Gaza: 'He's surviving only on medical fluids' There is also 9-year-old Nada, whose pants and bright smile hide legs that suffered a third-degree burn from an Israeli strike. At the Emirates Humanitarian City, a community marked by war nevertheless asserts the will to live. In science class, surrounded by about 30 students, 14-year-old Layane,...
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