Gallery: 'Reconstruction' in Gaza a distant dream

One of the few bulldozers working to clear up rubble in a destroyed part of the Shujayea neighbourhood, Gaza city. The equipment available in the Gaza Strip is not adequate to handle such a high level of destruction. (MEE/Anne Paq)

"It is not safe to stay here, but we don’t have a choice. We can’t go to the caravans either. There is no privacy there, and during the rainfall people living there were electrocuted by the electricity wires", says Ibtisam al-Najjar who has to live in the basement of her destroyed home (MEE/Anne Paq)

Rows of newly built metal caravan shelters are seen in a location used by a company which build them for displaced Palestinians near the city of Deir al-Balah (MEE/Anne Paq)

A Palestinian woman walks through the newly established camp with metal caravans shelters for displaced people in the village of Khuza'a. More than 200 Palestinians live in precarious conditions in the 26 caravans.(MEE/Anne Paq)

Ibrahim al Najjar calls the mayor to complain about the lack of water. When asked what he expects in terms of reconstruction, Ibrahim says: “It will take many years. We have seen that people whose houses were destroyed in the 2008 war still don’t have a new home. This will take a long time.” (MEE/Anne Paq)

Sahoussan al Najjar, 34, in her room where she stays with her husband and two children in a metal caravan shelter in Khuza'a (MEE/Anne Paq)

Electricity cables in the mostly destroyed home of Adnan al Najjar in the village of Khuza'a. Many Palestinians live in hazardous conditions in half destroyed homes (MEE/Anne Paq)

"It will be difficult to live in the caravan, but we don’t have any choice. Our situation is just like that of everyone else. We don’t have options. The joy of getting married has been taken away", says Fadi al Najjar, 24, sitting in the only room left of his home. (MEE/Anne Paq)

"I need to go to a new home. If it was just for me, I would not beg for help. No one wants to beg. But I’m worried about my daughter. She only weighs 1.5 kilograms.", says Tahrir Najjar sitting in the room where she stays in the newly established camp with metal caravan shelters for displaced people.(MEE/Anne Paq)

Currently 30,000 people are staying in 13 UNRWA school buildings serving as collective shelters. The shelters are not adequate to face the upcoming harsh winter conditions.(MEE/Anne Paq)

Mohammed Abu Maghasib, 9, stands underneath the staircase where he sleeps together with (MEE/Anne Paq)

A Palestinian family staying in one of the UNRWA schools used as shelters (MEE/Anne Paq)