Palestinians in Al Karama area in Jabalia in the north of the Gaza Strip wait for much-needed aid to be dropped. More than six months of Israeli military operations, in retaliation for the deadly Hamas October 7 attacks on Israel, have turned the territory into a "humanitarian hellscape," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said recently, with its 2.3 million people in desperate need of food, water, shelter and medicine. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES