‘I’m coming to a place that looks like hell’: the long road home for Gaza’s displaced

Since the war began, many people have been forced to move between overcrowded shelters and makeshift camps. Photograph: Enas Tantesh/The Guardian

For Abdulaziz the return to Sheikh Radwan in northern Gaza was bittersweet. His home was still standing, if damaged, but the life he built around it had been utterly destroyed by 15 months of Israeli attacks.

Relatives, friends, acquaintances are dead. His job as manager of a car rental business is gone because the cars, the office and all their equipment have been destroyed. He is traumatised by more than a year of war and life as a refugee.