In Gaza, months of war have left Palestinians with barely the necessities to survive

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Housing, medical care, schools, water and electricity are all in short supply in Gaza, which has endured a nearly eight-month siege by Israeli forces.

Palestinians carry salvaged belongings as they leave the Jabalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip after they returned briefly to check on their homes on May 30, amid the conflict between Israel and the militant group Hamas., much of the enclave's already fragile infrastructure — water and electricity, as well as housing, hospitals, and schools — has been either damaged or destroyed.

People in Gaza"either live in the open air or they're living in destroyed buildings, which are unsafe," he says. Ibrahim Abu Issa, 24, says when he and his family left Rafah,"we each took a bag on our back and left the house." The full extent of the devastation in Gaza is nearly impossible to quantify. U.N. agencies and privately funded aid groups have had difficulty moving their personnel around safely. Western journalists who managed to report from inside Gaza in the opening months of the war were allowed to go in only with Israeli forces. Media groups are now calling for a lifting of a ban on independent reporters entering the territory.

 

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