Daily life in Gaza – in pictures

Palestinian beekeepers inspect hives at an apiary near the central Gaza Strip refugee camp of Bureij. Jihad Abu Shamalah, the farmer who owns the apiary, says his 450 hives produce some 4000kg of honey, sold only in the Gaza Strip, every year
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Workers at the al-Arees ice cream factory in Khan Yunis, which is using cooking oil to operate because of a lack of fuel in the southern Gaza Strip
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A Palestinian woman buys freshly baked pita bread at a traditional bakery using a wood-burning stove in the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip
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Gaza City, home to an estimated 450,000 people
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Workers prepare sacks of flour and pulses as part of the food aid distributed by the World Food Programme in the Rafah refugee camp
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Palestinian boys play football in front of anti-Israeli graffiti in Gaza City
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A boy sits on top of a jerry can filled with fresh water from a public tap at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) headquarters in the southern Gaza Strip refugee camp of Rafah.
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A labourer works at the construction site of a residential project funded by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Rafah
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Palestinian boys surf in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Gaza City
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Fisherman unload their daily catch to be transported to local markets from the Gaza City port
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Schoolgirls walk past a newly painted mural on the 64th anniversary of the creation of Israel – known to Palestinians as Nakba, or the 'catastrophe' – in Gaza City
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Palestinian farmers pick strawberries in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahia. Israel has granted special approval for the export of a small amount of strawberries and flowers from the Gaza Strip to Europe
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An apprentice waitress, Ranad al-Ghozz, serves a table during a training course at the al-Mathaf restaurant and hotel, located on Gaza City's beach front. She is defying norms by working in a traditionally male-dominated industry
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Palestinian women perform in a play called I Want My Rights at Gaza City's Rashad Shawa Cultural Centre. The play, funded by the European Union, addresses women's rights issues, including the right of inheritance
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A Palestinian man drives a horse and cart along the beach in Gaza City
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