In pictures: Death, destruction and displacement in Gaza after six months of war

A Palestinian child eats bread in Gaza City during a lull in Israeli air strikes. According to the UN, famine is imminent in Gaza and could occur any time up to July (MEE/Mohammed al-Hajjar)

Gaza has been threatened by plague and deadly diseases as garbage fills the streets. In this photo, a group of children play near a waste landfill site in Gaza City (MEE/Mohammed al-Hajjar)

Palestinians queue up near a truck distributing drinkable water as they face the threat of hunger and thirst in Gaza City. According to the UN, more than 96 percent of Gaza’s water supply is “unfit for human consumption” (MEE/Mohammed al-Hajjar)

A vendor sells clothes on a street in Gaza City repeatedly targeted by Israeli strikes (MEE/Mohammed al-Hajjar)

Israel has killed more than 33,000 Palestinians, more than two-thirds of them women and children. In this photo, a Palestinian man walk through a cemetery in Gaza City to find the resting places of his loved ones (MEE/Mohammed al-Hajjar)

When the war broke out, schools immediately stopped classes, and the majority were turned into shelters for families fleeing air strikes (MEE/Mohammed al-Hajjar)

Two Palestinian men sit amid the rubble of their home in Gaza City that was targeted by Israeli fighter jets (MEE/Mohammed al-Hajjar)

A Palestinian man looks at the devastation in his neighbourhood through a broken set of windows following Israeli air strikes on Gaza City (MEE/Mohammed al-Hajjar)

A military plane airdrops small batches of aid on war-ravaged Gaza. Critics have said airdrops are dangerous and merely designed to divert public anger over the mounting Palestinian death toll (MEE/Mohammed al-Hajjar)

Nearly 70 percent of Gaza’s 439,000 homes and about half of its buildings have been damaged or destroyed by Israeli air strikes and shelling.

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have displaced multiple times. In this photo, Palestinians inspect the damage on their neighbourhood in Gaza City (MEE/Mohammed al-Hajjar)