Children at play in war zones
By CFP - Globaltimes.cn, Published: 2015-04-21 16:34:57
A girl plays on a swing in front of a building damaged by fighting in the city of Debaltseve, Ukraine on February 20, 2015. Photo: CFP
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Afghan boys play volleyball on the outskirts of Kabul on October 23, 2014. Photo: CFP A Palestinian youth practices his Parkour skills over the ruins of houses, which witnesses said were destroyed during a seven-week Israeli offensive, in the Shejaia neighborhood east of Gaza on October 1, 2014. Some Palestinian youths aged between 13 and 17 years old train in the devastated area as a personal initiative to develop their skills. Parkour is a physical discipline of movement focused on overcoming obstacles. Photo: CFP
Boys play a game of war between Ukrainian army and pro-Russian armed force in eastern Ukrainian town of Kramatorsk on August 7, 2014. Photo: CFP An Israeli boy plays with a ball in a public bomb shelter in the southern city of Ashkelon, Israel on August 4, 2014. In Israeli southern communities hit by daily rocket and mortar bomb attacks from the Gaza Strip, some residents remained in their shelters. Photo: CFP
Palestinian children play on a mini Ferris wheel along a street in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip on July 29, 2014. Israel knocked out Gaza's only power plant, flattened the home of its Islamist Hamas political leader and pounded dozens of other high-profile targets in the enclave on July 29, 2014, with no end in sight to more than three weeks of conflict. More than 1,100 Gazans, most of them civilians, have been killed in the conflict. On the Israeli side, 53 soldiers have been killed as well as three civilians. Photo: CFP
A boy dives into a crater filled with water in Aleppo's al-Shaar district, Syria on July 10, 2014. Activists said the crater was caused by barrel bombs dropped by forces of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad. Photo: CFP
A girl runs at a temporary tent camp set up for Ukrainian refugees in the town of Novoshakhtinsk in the Rostov region near the Russian-Ukrainian border, southern Russia on July 9, 2014. Photo: CFP Children, who are internally displaced due to the fighting between rebels and the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, play inside Al-Tah camp in the southern Idlib countryside on July 4, 2014. Photo: CFP Children, who fled from the violence in Mosul, play during sunset inside the Khazer refugee camp on the outskirts of Arbil, in Iraq's Kurdistan region, on June 27, 2014. Photo: CFP Syrian and Palestinian refugee children climb up a goalpost before the start of a soccer match in the Al-Baqaa Palestinian refugee camp, near Amman on June 17, 2014. The football league between young Syrian and Palestinian refugees and Jordanian youth is organized by Oxfam and the al-Baqaa youth club to commemorate World Refugee Day, which falls on June 20. The matches aim to foster positive relationships between communities, fighting exclusion and marginalization, while promoting trust and friendship, according to the organizer. Photo: CFP
Boys are pictured through a tyre as they play soccer at a railway station camp, where refugees from South Sudan have stayed for four years, in Khartoum on May 11, 2014. Photo: CFP Afghan boys play with a broken swing in Kabul on April 3, 2014. Photo: CFP
A girl carrying a doll sits on a step of a building as a boy peeks out from its gate in Damascus suburbs of Arbeen on January 6, 2014. Photo: CFP A girl rides a bicycle amid damaged buildings and vehicles along a street in the besieged area of Homs, Syria on November 11, 2013. Photo: CFP Children play a game of table football in Aleppo's al-Mashhad district on October 22, 2013. Photo: CFP Afghan boys play with toy guns on the first day of Eid al-Adha in Jalalabad on October 15, 2013. Muslims around the world celebrate Eid al-Adha to mark the end of the hajj pilgrimage by slaughtering sheep, goats, camels and cows to commemorate Prophet Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son, Ismail, on God's command. Photo: CFP Children pretend to be carrying a coffin, as they play along a street in Raqqa province, eastern Syria on August 12, 2013. Photo: CFP A Congolese boy displaced by fighting in North Kivu, juggles a ball near his makeshift shelter at the Mugunga III camp for internally displaced people near Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on August 4, 2013. Photo: CFP Children play at a camp for internally displaced persons in the suburbs of Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State of Myanmar on July 7, 2013. Thousands fled when fighting erupted between Myanmar government troops and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) after a ceasefire collapsed in June 2011. There are at least 85,000 internally displaced persons in Kachin and neighboring Shan State by July, says the United Nations. Photo: CFP Palestinian girls play during UN-run summer fun games week in Gaza on June 17, 2013. Tens of thousands of children from the Gaza Strip spend at least part of their holidays in special summer camps, arranged around a wide array of activities. Photo: CFP Afghan boys play on a destroyed car at a hilltop in Kabul on October 18, 2012. Photo: CFP
A boy smiles as he plays on a tank at a war exhibition held by Iran's revolutionary guard to mark the anniversary of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88) in southern Tehran on September 26, 2011. Photo: CFP A girl holds a doll at an SOS Children's Village in a suburb of Damascus, Syria. The village is home to more than 200 Syrian children. Photo: Huan Xiang/People's Daily A boy displays his toys at an SOS Children's Village in a suburb of Damascus, Syria. Photo: Huan Xiang/People's Daily