Shurouq, 31, is a Save the Children staff member in Gaza. Since October 2023, she has been displaced eight times after losing her husband in the first weeks of the war. In September 2025, under relentless Israeli bombardment, she left her home in Gaza City with Karmel*, her 3-year-old daughter. In this account, she tells us about the impact of two years of relentless violence and multiple displacements on her and her daughter

On the eve of the Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund, Save the Children’s Senior Development Finance Advisor, Richard Watts, explains how the current push from key donor governments for multilateral institutions, like the World Bank, to “do more with less” puts millions of children’s lives at risk, and urges a shift to a “do more with more” approach through innovation and inclusivity. 

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