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"She used to sit on her sofa, surrounded by piles of books, with her laptop and tablet in front of her," she recalled.

In the northwest of the city, empty streets are lined with piles of concrete that once were apartment buildings before the Israel-Hamas war, with some structures completely collapsed.

Rather than take piles of donations and display vast quantities of merchandise, Block ran a curated boutique.

The many millions of tonnes of rubble now littering the Gaza Strip are not just piles of concrete and twisted metal.

Research shows that cutting access to free and low-cost health coverage worsens health outcomes and piles medical debt onto people who are already struggling financially.