Palestinians in face of heat and violence

A Palestinian woman sits outside a makeshift shelter at a displacement camp in Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip, during a heatwave in the region. Gaza remains gripped by daily violence, with both the Israeli military and Hamas accusing one another of violating the truce in effect since October 10. The war flattened swathes of the territory, displaced most of the population at least once, and left hundreds of thousands of people living in tents and temporary shelters.
According to the UN, at least 1.6 million of Gaza's 2.1 million residents are facing high levels of acute food insecurity mainly due to Israeli restrictions on goods entering the territory. Trucks of aid and private sector goods have entered Gaza more easily since an October 2025 ceasefire, but international NGOs and the UN warn the situation remains volatile, with regular goods still too expensive for Gazans to purchase.
Israel controls all entry points into Gaza, and denies entry to certain goods. Gaza does not produce enough food to sustain its population, with 75 per cent of fields once used to grow crops either destroyed or damaged since the start of the war in October 2023, according to the UN's food agency, FAO. — AFP