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.
Palestinians living in Gaza have instead been forced to rely mostly on makeshift medical clinics, she says, but"it's very basic medical care."a former U.N. official who is now director of the Center for Humanitarian Health at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore,"There's no water anymore, no sanitation or infrastructure available. Same with housing."
One family that fled Rafah a few weeks ago, after Israeli forces ordered an evacuation, is now living in a bombed-out school in Khan Younis, a city that has been devastated by Israeli shelling.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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