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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Seham Tantesh in Gaza and Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem

Exhausted Palestinians struggle to put lives back together as world’s gaze fixes on Iran

Man sits on a corner of the exposed first floor of a destroyed multi-storey building
A man sits on the edge of a floor of a destroyed building in al-Saftawi neighbourhood west of Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip. Photograph: Bashar Taleb/AFP/Getty Images

There is little left that connects Palestinians in Gaza with their prewar existence. The contours of life have become darker and far more brutal, as if the population has been stripped of its past.

“Drones never stop buzzing overhead, gunfire and shelling continue almost daily and naval boats fire towards fishermen,” said 56-year-old Ahmed Baroud, a father of five displaced in Deir al-Balah.

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