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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Hazem Balousha in Nuseirat and Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem

Furniture for firewood, radios for news: Israel’s siege throws life in Gaza back decades

People standing at gate
People mourn at the morgue of Nasser hospital for relatives killed in Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis, Gaza, on Friday. Photograph: Abed Zagout/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

In Gaza, the ever present fear of sudden death has prompted mothers to write their children’s names on their legs and hips, to help with identification if they are killed in an airstrike.

They have no control over the Israeli war waged against them, which is very much out of the 21st century – fought from the cockpits of jets and the control rooms of hi-tech naval ships. Yet, on the streets of southern Gaza, people’s lives have been bombed back decades.

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