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‘We went back to the Stone Age’: Life in besieged Gaza

By Matina Stevis-Gridneff, Hiba Yazbek, Abu Bakr Bashir, Ameera Harouda
New York Times·
9 mins to read

Life in besieged Gaza revolves around a daily struggle to find food and water. With practically no fuel or coal, families are burning doors and window frames to cook what they can scrounge.

Namzi Mwafi, 23, has one job, day in and day out: find water for his family.

Dozens of his extended family members are sheltering together in a two-bedroom apartment in Rafah, a city in the southern Gaza Strip near the territory’s border with Egypt, he says. The

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