Heavy rains flood shelters, damage solar power systems and threaten essential healthcare services.


A graduate of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the Islamic University of Gaza
Heavy rains flood shelters, damage solar power systems and threaten essential healthcare services.

Floods have swept through Gaza after heavy rain, endangering families and putting war-damaged buildings at risk.
![Floods have drenched large parts of Gaza [Lina Ghassan Abu Zayed/Al Jazeera]](https://aljazeeranews.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/c8ed17cd-7ffd-4f3d-962a-e633e6a524cd-1794051923.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Just before the genocide, 15 Gaza schoolgirls posed for a photograph. Three years on, Al Jazeera went looking for them.

With libraries, schools and homes destroyed in Gaza, surviving books have become treasured possessions.

Ahead of first Palestinian national elections in 20 years, people in Gaza hope to rebuild after Israeli destruction.

Displaced Palestinians in Gaza struggle daily to afford food, with soaring prices and limited income opportunities.

The university is looking to continue educating Palestinians amid Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
![Islamic University of Gaza [Omar Asthawy/Al Jazeera]](https://aljazeeranews.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/d26da8367fdcf6895abc6a1ab492a3ce-1785144858.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Psychological wounds compound Najwa’s physical injuries after losing her daughter in an Israeli air strike.

Palestinian women in Gaza who have lost limbs during Israel’s genocidal war are using football as a way of recovering.
![Gaza's first women's amputee football team [Lina Abu Zayed/AL Jazeera]](https://aljazeeranews.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/IMG-20260709-WA0150-1784306274.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Thousands of bodies remain trapped under the rubble of their homes in Gaza, with retrieval a long and difficult task.
![Fidaa Haji inspects the ruins of her home, where the bodies of members of her family remain trapped under the rubble in Gaza City. [Lina Abuzayed/Al Jazeera]](https://aljazeeranews.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/IMG-20260703-WA0011-1783677725.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)