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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Peter Beaumont, photographs by Chris Black

A WHO photographer in Gaza: ‘There’s just an overwhelming need for peace’

A crowd of desperate people take food from trucks in an early morning convoy heading for Nasser hospital in Khan Younis
A crowd of desperate people take food from trucks in an early morning convoy heading for Nasser hospital in Khan Younis. Photograph: Christopher Black/WHO

The scale of trauma, suffering and devastation in Gaza has reached a level that is barely imaginable, according to a photographer with the World Health Organization who spent more than a month documenting the UN agency’s work in the strip.

Chris Black, who recently returned after five and a half weeks in the Palestinian territory, said the most shocking moment came during a mission to a hospital.

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