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Children’s YouTube star Ms. Rachel was browsing TikTok one day when she came across a video from Gaza that broke her. It showed a young boy, likely no older than five, suffering from severe shock after a bombing. His eyes are wide with fear and he is shaking furiously.
“The look in his eyes has stayed in my mind since I saw the video,” Ms. Rachel, whose real name is Rachel Accurso, tells The Independent.
“A kind doctor hugged him and told him the bombing was over and he finally broke down into tears. No child should experience that kind of fear, shock and terror.”
That video was one of many that compelled Ms. Rachel to speak out on a conflict that has fiercely divided opinion in the US. Over the coming months, she would become one of the most prominent public advocates for children caught up
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