Overview
- Gaza residents are leaning on grandparents’ know-how because the war has ruined homes and knocked out power, water and supplies across the strip.
- People describe drying fruit and tomatoes, cooking on open fires, rebuilding small rooms from rubble and red clay, and digging simple toilets to replace broken systems.
- The National frames the Nakba as a continuing crisis, echoing a UN description of the Palestinian situation as an enduring plight rather than a one-time event.
- Aid is strained as Israeli measures target UNRWA, including January demolitions at its East Jerusalem site and a parliamentary ban in Israeli-run areas, even as the UAE has flown in more than 600 tonnes of supplies and deployed field and floating hospitals.
- Tensions are rising in the occupied West Bank, with reports that settlers near Jenin forced a Palestinian family to exhume a recently buried relative.