The girls in the Gaza school photograph

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In June 2023, 15 teenage girls and their teacher Maha Taha posed for a photograph at Muscat Secondary School in the Gaza Strip after mock exams. Four months later, the Gaza war began, altering the lives of the girls, with one killed, four leaving Gaza, and others displaced, interrupting their education and future plans.

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Just before the genocide, 15 Gaza schoolgirls posed for a photograph. Three years on, Al Jazeera went looking for them.

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