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October 7 Hamas Attacks: How Life Changed at Israel's Borders, One Year

"The past year has been nothing short of catastrophic for Palestinians in both human and political terms," Khaled Elgindy, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute and director of its Program on Palestine and Israeli-Palestinian Affairs, told Newsweek.
"It is impossible to overstate the scale [of] death and destruction in Gaza, which is at once the deadliest event and the largest forced displacement of Palestinians in their modern history."
A woman cradles her eight-month-old son as residents collect the bodies of Palestinians killed in reported Israeli air strikes on October 28, 2023, in Khan Yunis, Gaza. "It has been a year of suffering," Tommaso... More Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty
At one point, UNRWA was housing more than one million people in schools, clinics and warehouses not designed for humans to live in, Touma said. "This war has been like nothing we've ever seen in the history of this United Nations agency," Touma said. "It's a place not fit for humans."
Aid agencies operating in the region described crippling difficulties in planning the provision of aid and maintaining logistics chains for funneling aid into Gaza. They said areas have become difficult or impossible to reach at various points in the past year.
The organizations also point to the high number of deaths of humanitarian workers, many of whom hail from communities directly impacted by the fighting, or attacks on their facilities and convoys. Sigrid Kaag, the U.N.'s senior humanitarian and reconstruction coordinator for Gaza, told the BBC in mid-September that Gaza was "the most unsafe place in the world to work."
"It has been a year of suffering," said Tommaso Della Longa of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, which includes nearly 200 smaller organizations. "We think that we see the worst, and the day after, there is something even worse," Della Longa told Newsweek.

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