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Deir Al-Balah School in Gaza.
UN News

Gaza: A struggle to keep young hopes alive amid shattered dreams

Children in Gaza will likely lose at least a year of education, with the school year suspended and classrooms closed or turned into shelters. Ziad Taleb, a correspondent for UN News, has been talking to teachers and children at a school in the central Gaza city of Deir Al-Balah, which is overflowing with displaced people who have fled their homes in a desperate attempt to find safety.

In this photo, taken by astronaut Neil Armstrong, Col. Edwin Aldrin, Jr. walks on the surface of the Moon on 20 July 1969. (file)
UN Photo/NASA

How a piece of the Moon landed at UN Headquarters

An extraterrestrial visitor now lives at UN Headquarters in New York: a precious piece of the Moon. The rock joins a host of other fascinating objects on display, from a machine gun fashioned into a guitar to a semi-curdled bronze statue that survived a nuclear bomb in Japan.