The music instructor Mohammed Abu Mahadi of the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music conducts a lesson for his student Youssef Jibril in Gaza City on August 12, 2025. (Photo by Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters)





An aid truck distributes water to Palestinians in Khan Yunis, Gaza, where residents carry the supplies in plastic jerrycans amid a worsening water crisis, on August 13, 2025. Israeli attacks have severely damaged the city's infrastructure, leaving much of the population without access to clean drinking water due to destroyed wells and storage facilities. (Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A Palestinian girl runs with an empty basin to a water distribution point during a hot summer day with temperatures reaching 36 °C (97 °F) in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, Wednesday, August 13, 2025. The youth behind her pulls containers of water. (Photo by Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo)





People attend funerals after the bodies of Palestinians who lost their lives are brought to Al-Shifa Hospital for a funeral ceremony following the Israeli army attacked Palestinians gathered for aid in the Zikim area in northern Gaza Strip, resulting in deaths and injuries, on August 15, 2025 in Gaza City, Gaza. (Photo by Saeed M. M. T. Jaras/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A displaced Palestinian man fleeing northern Gaza gestures atop a vehicle loaded with belongings while he heads south as the Israeli military prepares to relocate residents to the southern part of the enclave, in Gaza City on August 18, 2025. (Photo by Mahmoud Issa/Reuters)





A Palestinian girl searches for things to rescue at a garbage waste dump in Gaza City on August 18, 2025. Rights group Amnesty International on August 18, accused Israel of enacting a “deliberate policy” of starvation in Gaza, as the United Nations and aid groups warn of famine in the Palestinian territory. Israel, while heavily restricting aid allowed into the Gaza Strip, has repeatedly rejected claims of deliberate starvation in the 22-month-old war. (Photo by Omar al-Qattaa/AFP Photo)





A Palestinian young woman rushes away from the site of Israeli air strikes on a six-storey building in the Saftawi neighborhood west of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on August 19, 2025. Gaza's civil defence agency reported that 45 people were killed on August 19 by Israeli strikes and fire across the territory. (Photo by Bashar Taleb/AFP Photo)





Rescuers try to free a Palestinian woman trapped under the rubble of a house hit by an Israeli strike in Nuseirat, Gaza Strip on August 20, 2025. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





Palestinian woman Saja Hamad lies trapped under the rubble of a house hit in an Israeli strike, in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on August 20, 2025. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





Palestinians rush for cover as smoke billows after an Israeli strike on a building in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on August 20, 2025. Israel's defence minister approved a plan on August 20, for the conquest of Gaza City and authorised the call-up of around 60,000 reservists, piling pressure on Hamas as mediators push for a ceasefire. (Photo by Bashar Taleb/AFP Photo)





Palestinians protest against the ongoing Israel-Hamas war and the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip in Gaza City, 21 August 2025. Over 62,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip since October 2023, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, and about 1,200 Israelis have been killed since the launch of an Israeli military campaign in response to a cross-border attack by Hamas on 07 October 2023. (Photo by Mohammed Saber/EPA)





Humanitarian aid packages descending with parachutes over Deir al-Balah amid the ongoing Israeli strikes in Gaza on August 22, 2025. Attempts to drop humanitarian aid supplies by parachute from the air continue in the Gaza Strip, which is under attack and embargo by Israel. Planes dropped aid by parachute from the air to the city of Deir al-Balah, located in the central part of the Gaza Strip. Palestinians gathered in large numbers in the area to receive aid. (Photo by Mohammed Nassar/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Palestinians flee with their belongings the Abu Iskandar neighbourhood of northern Gaza City on August 22, 2025. Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz vowed on August 22 to destroy Gaza City if Hamas did not agree to disarm, release all remaining hostages in the territory and end the war on Israel's terms. (Photo by Bashar Taleb/AFP Photo)





A man reacts as he holds the equipment used by Palestinian cameraman Hussam al-Masri, who was a contractor for Reuters, at the site where he was killed along with other journalists and people in Israeli strikes on Nasser hospital, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, in this still image taken from a video shot by Reuters contractor Hatem Khaled, who was wounded shortly afterwards in another strike while he was filming the site on August 25, 2025. (Photo by Hatem Khaled/Reuters)





Relatives and colleagues of Reuters cameraman Hussam Al-Masri mourn over his body ahead of his funeral in Khan Younis, Gaza, on Monday, August 25, 2025. Israel has faced global condemnation for back-to-back strikes on the biggest hospital in southern Gaza this week, which killed at least 22 people, including health workers, emergency response crews and five journalists. On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu conceded the incident was a “tragic mishap”. But on Tuesday, the Israeli military defended the assault on the hospital, claiming that six “terrorists” had been killed in the attack, which it said was directed at a “camera that was positioned by Hamas”. (Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu/Getty Images)





A displaced Palestinian man with amputated legs is pushed in a wheelchair as he holds his prosthetic limb while fleeing amid an Israeli military operation, in Gaza City, on August 26, 2025. (Photo by Ebrahim Hajjaj/Reuters)





Relatives mourn near covered bodies at Al Shifa hospital after members of their family were killed in an Israeli airstrike, in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, 29 August 2025. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, six members of a family were killed on 28 August after an Israeli airstrike hit the west of Jabaliya refugee camp, north of Gaza City. (Photo by Mohammed Saber/EPA)





A Palestinian woman carries the body of a child outside Shifa hospital in Gaza City where casualties of Israeli fire were transported ahead of their funerals, on August 29, 2025, as the war between Israel and the Hamas militant movement continues. The Israeli military declared Gaza City “a dangerous combat zone” on August 29, as it prepared to conquer the Palestinian territory's largest city after almost two years of war. (Photo by Bashar Taleb/AFP Photo)





Palestinians, including children, examine the burnt makeshift tent, housing displaced Palestinians, and parts of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) targeted by the Israeli army in Tel al-Hawa neighborhood of Gaza City, Gaza on August 31, 2025. It has been reported that there have been deaths and injuries as a result of the attack carried out by the Israeli army's unmanned aerial vehicle. (Photo by Hamza Z. H. Qraiqea/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Palestinian civilians wait in line for hours for the distribution that could only serve a small number of people, in Nuseirat Refugee Camp, central Gaza, on September 01, 2025. Hot meals were distributed at the Nuseirat Refugee Camp in central Gaza to Palestinians struggling to access food due to Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip and the deepening hunger crisis. (Photo by Moiz Salhi/Anadolu via Getty Images)