All this week, we're marking the anniversary of the October 7th Hamas terror attack on Israel

and the subsequent two years of war in Gaza.

Today, we examine the toll on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

Palestinian health authorities say more than 67,000 people have been killed.

More than 40,000 children have lost one or both parents.

Nick Schifrin reports, with the help of our producer in Gaza, Shams O'Day, on the stories

beyond the numbers of sacrifice and suffering.

The grief of a six-year-old is like endless waves.

Ahmed Abu Mamar plays like other boys, even inside the displacement camp that's now home.

And the cat tolerates his clutch, for she makes him smile.

But in the makeshift tent where he lives with his cousin, aunt, and grandmother,

most times his face is stamped by Sara.

He's lost his father, Rames, his sister, Sally, his mother, his grandfather, his aunt, and his

uncle. The day Sally died, their aunt, Inas, held Sally's five-year-old body and cried.

That was October the 17th,

2023.

Ahmed's father, Enos' brother, died this past June.

Where did he go?

To heaven?

To whom in heaven did he go?

Who?

Sally.

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