Slideshow: UNRWA school turned shelter in Gaza
All photos by Shadi Alqarra. Hear and read the accompanying report by Rami Almeghari.
- The entrance to UNRWA’s Albahrain boys’ school in western Gaza City.
- Yehya Hejazi and Reham Elkhaisy have had to postpone their wedding plans due to displacement.
- The Albahrain boys’ school now currently shelters 3300 residents displaced from the eastern areas of Gaza City.
- Displaced children play in the school’s patio to pass the time.
- Even if a more permanent ceasefire is agreed to, some school will continue to operate as emergency shelters after the start of the school year.
- More than 16 thousand homes were destroyed during Operation Protective Edge and an 8-year-old blockade inhibits the import of construction materials needed to rebuild Gaza.