Scraping by in Gaza
Life in Gaza remains difficult as thousands of Palestinians shelter in tents near destroyed homes, while still more make do in damaged buildings.
Over six months after the end of a 50-day war with Israel last summer, the enclave is still under a tight Israeli-Egyptian blockade. Little of the $5.4 billion pledged for Gaza's reconstruction by international donors last October has arrived.
Palestinian boys play at their family house.
A woman cooks at her house.
A family shares lunch at home.
A youth feeds his younger brother.
A woman washes up in her kitchen.
A girl is reflected in a fragment of mirror.
A boy looks through a window.
A woman is seen through a piece of metal at her house.
A girl walks on top of the rubble of her family’s house.
A boy is pictured through the window of a house.
A boy sells sweets on Gaza City beach on the Mediterranean Sea.
A boy jumps into the Mediterranean Sea.
Children throw garbage at a dump site.
