Annie's New Letters (& notes)

"What we know is that, because Israel controls about seventy per cent of the territory of the Gaza Strip, some two million people are squeezed into thirty per cent of the territory. We know that eighty-one per cent of the Gaza Strip is damaged or destroyed, and more than three hundred thousand housing units were completely destroyed during the war, in addition to schools and other infrastructure, like clinics, hospitals, and mosques."

Photograph by Mohammad Abu Elseba / ZUMA / Reuters The New Yorker September 21, 2026  Q. & A. What Life Is Actually Like in Gaza Today N...