IN PICTURES: Displaced Families living behind Banksy Kitten graffiti
Published date: 27 February 2015 17:31 GMT
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Last update: 9 years 8 months ago
A graffiti work by Banksy on a very destroyed part of Beit Hanoun, a city North of the Gaza Strip (MEE/Anne Paq/Basel Yazouri)
Several families live just a few meters behind the graffiti work in makeshift shelters (MEE/Anne Paq/Basel Yazouri)
Approximately 100,000 Palestinians remain displaced this winter as their homes were destroyed during the 2014 Israeli military offensive (MEE/Anne Paq/Basel Yazouri)
"With severe restrictions on movement, most of the 1.8 million residents are trapped in the coastal enclave, with no hope for the future," stated a joint statement by 30 international agencies released on the same day of the video (MEE/Anne Paq/Basel Yazouri)
The Shabari family live in a few square meters of what remains of a destroyed house. One tiny room for a family of 8 members (MEE/Anne Paq/Basel Yazouri)
Some of the children have to go to sleep on the nearby UN-run shelter because of the lack of space (MEE/Anne Paq/Basel Yazouri)
Many displaced Palestinians do not have access to electricty- and if they do the electricty cuts persist for up to 18 hours a day (MEE/Anne Paq/Basel Yazouri)
Massad Shabari, 53, handicapped, lies in a bed in the makeshuft shelter of his family. His wheelchair and leg prothesis are broken. He says : "We are cold. The situation is so hard and nobody is looking after us" (MEE/Anne Paq/Basel Yazouri)
The kitchen is the Shabary family shelter (MEE/Anne Paq/Basel Yazouri)
According to the agencies, over 400,000 of them are in need of immediate psychosocial support (MEE/Anne Paq/Basel Yazouri)
Some metal caravans have been distributed by ngos. They are inadequate to face harsh winter conditions, and will be very hot in the summer (MEE/Anne Paq/Basel Yazouri)
Gazan children in their home (MEE/Anne Paq/Basel Yazouri)
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