A joint ICRC and Palestine Red Crescent team evacuate the wounded and dead.
An old man is evacuated from his home by the ICRC and Palestine Red Crescent during a humanitarian ceasefire.
ICRC employees load aid materials such as essential household items, mattresses and blankets for the displaced into a vehicle.
Displaced Palestinians returning home during a brief ceasefire to inspect their properties and retrieve essential items.
Khuza’a, one of the most damaged areas in the Gaza Strip. A Palestinian takes water from a water-tank donated by the ICRC
Gaza. A Palestinian couple gaze at a bombed out building.
The ICRC and the Magen David Adom worked together during the conflict to help ensure that emergency needs were being met.
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Five weeks of intense conflict caused widespread damage and casualties in Gaza. The ICRC is working with the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) and the Magen David Adom Society (MDA) to bring assistance and relief to those in need of medical care, to people who were displaced and to those without access to water and electricity.