One year after the ceasefire, a humanitarian crisis overwhelms the Strip with few signs of long-term recovery

Lilia Sebouai

Global Health Security Reporter

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Lilia Sebouai is a reporter for The Telegraph’s Global Health Security and Foreign desks. She covers topics including infectious disease, emerging threats, humanitarian crises and conflict.

Published 27 October 2026 12:00pm GMT

As Israelis go to the polls there is little expectation that the election result will make life any easier for ordinary Gazans, who, more than a year on from the ceasefire, are still living among ruins.

While more aid and medical supplies are entering the Gaza Strip, there are few signs of long-term recovery or reconstruction. The electricity supply is yet to be restored, fresh water is scarce, and toilets are often just a hole in the ground.…