Simply unimaginable Palestinians exhausted after 15 months of war

Fifteen months into the war in Gaza, more than 46,500 Palestinians have been killed as conditions in the strip, where almost all of the population of 2.1 million are living in makeshift accommodation, continue to deteriorate in the face of famine and cold.

- Lorenzo Tondo, Malak A Tantesh

At least 1.9 million people - or about 90% of the territory's population - are displaced. Many have been forced to relocate repeatedly, some as many as 10 times or more.

Over the past three months, Israeli ground operations have concentrated on the northern third of the territory, where Israel says it is trying to prevent Hamas from regrouping and Palestinians accuse Israel of seeking to permanently depopulate a buffer zone.

At least 5,000 Palestinians have been killed during Israel's 100-day siege of northern Gaza, according to the Gaza government's media office, though that figure does not distinguish between combatants and civilians. Israel says it goes to great lengths to avoid civilian casualties.

Humanitarian aid

Shaina Low, the Norwegian Refugee Council's communications adviser in Palestine, described the conditions in northern Gaza as "just simply unimaginable", with acute shortages of food and water and very little aid being allowed to enter.