New School Year in Gaza

Wounded by Israeli shelling, Palestinian student Ahmed Balbissi, age 11, sits in a wheelchair at the United Nations school in at Gaza City on the first day of the new school year on September 14, 2014. A half million children in Gaza started the new school year three weeks late as a result of the devastating 50-day war between Israel and Hamas that ended on August 26th. UPI/Ismael Mohamad