Fear, trauma returns to children in Gaza as fighting resumes

James Elder, UNICEF's global spokesperson, says children have returned to a state of fear and trauma as Israeli air attacks resume across the enclave.

"You can see the gentle change; a little childhood was returning in them" during the truce, said Elder from southern Gaza. "That has gone now. The trauma, the fear in their little eyes as they see a look in their parents that they may be losing their ability to protect them - and that's terrifying."

"You see people shudder, particularly children. You just see that reflex action that has now become a learned behaviour of fear seeping in," he added.