A Maltese aid worker has described how 11 of the children killed in Israeli air strikes in Gaza were participants in a programme his organization was running to help traumatised young people in the besieged area. More than eight days of violence in the latest escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has resulted in the deaths of more than 60 Palestinian children out of over 200 fatalities. There have also been casualties on the Israeli side, with at least ten people, including two children killed during rocket attacks. Karl Schembri, who works with the Norwegian Refugee Council that runs a programme in Gaza helping children to deal with trauma, was horrified to learn that some of the participants were among the dead. “The nightmares of these children have ended," he told Times of Malta. "They were buried with their nightmares and their dreams. They are gone forever. They were killed with their parents, they were all at home. “They were killed with their relatives and neighbours in air strikes on very densely populated areas. It’s absolutely tragic the world keeps allowing this to keep happening,” he said. Schembri said the NRC was reeling by the news of the children’s...