Living on a knife edge
A Palestinian girl holds her little brother inside their home in Beit Lahiya, near the border between Israel and the northern Gaza Strip.
The area is a flashpoint for the decades-old Middle East conflict and is also deeply impoverished, with many of the 1.7 million Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip dependent on aid. Yet in the midst of a volatile situation, daily life goes on.
A Palestinian girl stands by a rocking horse in her family's damaged house in Beit Lahiya, near the border between Israel and the northern Gaza Strip.
Children play outside their house in the northern Gaza Strip's Jabalya refugee camp.
A Palestinian girl runs past washing lines at the refugee camp.
A Palestinian man reads the Koran inside his house at the Jabalya camp.
A woman holds her son's hand as they walk past washing hanging out at the camp.
A Palestinian woman bathes her son on a hot day near their home in Beit Lahiya.
A Palestinian woman bakes bread in a clay oven inside her home.
Children are seen inside their family's house during a power outage in Jabalya refugee camp.
A Palestinian woman does the washing-up by candlelight during the power cut.
