Education activist Malala Yousafzai has highlighted the trauma experienced by a little Palestinian girl amid Israel’s ongoing bombardment of the besieged enclave.

Malala shared an Instagram story about the young girl who lost her hair due to the stress and trauma caused by Israeli military aggression in Gaza and called for an immediate ceasefire to protect innocent people.

“This is the trauma Palestinian girls are enduring under Israel’s bombing – no peace, no school. We need a ceasefire now and we must protect the lives of these children,” she wrote.

The Pakistani Nobel Prize winner has repeatedly raised her voice for the rights of Palestinian children and condemned Israel’s attacks on Gaza, especially on educational institutions.

In an interview with Al Jazeera8-year-old Sama Tabil said she used to love her hair but is now ridiculed for being bald.

With tears in her eyes, she expressed her desire to travel abroad to receive treatment so that she could “be beautiful again.”

In the heartbreaking video, the little girl said that she was a good student and did her hair every day before going to school.

The girl was displaced with her family after Israeli forces attacked their camp in Rafah.

Sama said she and her family were sleeping when the attack took place and were awakened by gunshots and bomb explosions.

A few days after the incident, her hair began to fall out.

Sama’s mother said she saw corpses and ruins after the bombing, which traumatized her.

“The constant fear of attacks and lack of security has rubbed salt into the wound,” she said.

She said the deadly attacks by Israeli forces had robbed Sama of her childhood.

In the Khan Younis camp, other girls tease her by calling her bald and a cancer patient, the eight-year-old said. “It really hurts,” she added.

Due to a lack of medicines, doctors cannot treat them in the besieged area.

UNICEF warns that children in the Gaza Strip are suffering from a mental health crisis.