Palestinians desperately hunt down food and water in Gaza as Israel heavily restricts aid delivery

Palestinian children collect food at a donation point provided by a charity group in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, on December 6, 2023.

Men use their hands to drink rainwater dripping from the roof of a tent amid water shortages while at a school run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in Rafah.

Displaced Palestinians queue for food donations in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, on November 30, 2023.

A Palestinian man prepares food for his family outside his tent at a camp for displaced people in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip where most civilians have taken refuge, on December 13, 2023.

Shelves stand empty as food supplies to the Gaza Strip run short at a supermarket in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on November 11, 2023

Internally displaced Palestinian children who have fled their homes in the northern Gaza Strip due to intense Israeli military bombardment, hold containers as they wait for food in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.

Men help toddlers drink some water upon reaching the central Gaza Strip on foot via the Salah al-Din road on their way to the southern part of the Palestinian enclave on November 5, 2023.

Trucks carrying humanitarian aid from Egyptian NGOs for Palestinians wait for the reopening of the Rafah crossing on the Egyptian side, to enter Gaza.

A woman sits by food cooking on a fire as children play nearby outside one of the tents housing Palestinians displaced by Israeli bombardment of Gaza.

Displaced Palestinians queue for food and bread donations next to a destroyed building in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, on November 30, 2023.