New Delhi, Dec. 31 -- As the Israel-Hamas war enters day 86, the discourse or discussion majorly continues to centre around the casualties, spoils and collateral damage. However, the children on both sides--those who fell clueless victims to the terror and the retaliatory devastation that followed or the ones who survived and are watching helplessly as bombs and shells turn Gaza into a city of ruins--are strangely falling out focus or being shoved in the footnotes.

As has been widely reported and well documented, Israel declared war on Hamas after suffering, arguably the worst terror attack on its soil on October 7 as armed fighters from the Palestinian terror group raided the country by land, air and sea, snuffing out lives which, accor...